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highplainsdem

(49,041 posts)
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 02:36 PM Oct 2016

‘The Straightjacket Should Be On’: Dem Rep. Mocks Trump Over Meltdown

Source: Mediaite

A Democratic congressman mocked Donald Trump‘s anti-GOP meltdown and threats against the Clintons by saying, “Donald Trump said that the shackles are off, but it’s sounding more like people believe the straightjacket should be on.”

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Israel said Trump can’t actually expand his electorate with a slew of “vicious personal attacks.”

He called Trump an “insulter in chief.”

Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-straightjacket-should-be-on-dem-rep-mocks-trump-over-meltdown/

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‘The Straightjacket Should Be On’: Dem Rep. Mocks Trump Over Meltdown (Original Post) highplainsdem Oct 2016 OP
Stand by for a shitstorm of anti-semitic Trump supporters attacking Steve Israel muriel_volestrangler Oct 2016 #1
The court needs to appoint Mme. Defarge Oct 2016 #2
Bwaaaahahahahaha! SunSeeker Oct 2016 #3
Another great quote from Newsweek Stonepounder Oct 2016 #4
It's "straitjacket" ailsagirl Oct 2016 #5

muriel_volestrangler

(101,364 posts)
1. Stand by for a shitstorm of anti-semitic Trump supporters attacking Steve Israel
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 02:49 PM
Oct 2016

Forward noticed that Trump was edgind towards dog-whistles in the 2nd debate: http://forward.com/news/351656/george-soros-and-sidney-blumenthal-were-the-dog-whistles-of-the-second-deba/

This will bring them out into the open.

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
4. Another great quote from Newsweek
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 04:59 PM
Oct 2016

about the danger of a two-party system that it only takes one election to bring down our Republic. Talking about Trump as a would be Emperor:

But the rise of the plebiscitary presidency has left the system vulnerable to a would-be Caesar (or, in Lewis Black's phrasing, an "Orange Julius Caesar&quot .

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