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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 11:42 AM Sep 2020

Trump rips Black Lives Matter protesters in Pittsburgh: 'Thugs!'

Source: The Hill

President Trump on Tuesday slammed a group of protesters after a video went viral this week showing demonstrators confronting diners eating outdoors at a restaurant in Pittsburgh.

"BLM Protesters horribly harass elderly Pittsburgh diners, scaring them with loud taunts while taking their food right off their plate. These Anarchists, not protesters, are Biden voters, but he has no control and nothing to say. Disgraceful. Never seen anything like it. Thugs," Trump tweeted Tuesday morning.

Trump also claimed that "because of weak and pathetic Democrat leadership, this thuggery is happening in other Democrat run cities and states" and that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), "won't even talk about it."

Biden's campaign has repeatedly condemned violence amid ongoing nationwide protests calling for widespread police reforms and racial justice. Demonstrators in the footage do not mention Biden.



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Trump rips Black Lives Matter protesters in Pittsburgh: 'Thugs!' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
I've never wanted another human being to die so much in my life. BlueStater Sep 2020 #1
He's this generation's Dick Cheney. CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #4
The secret has been out about Thug being dog-whistle for the N-word ever since the CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #2
I'm still giving... Alacritous Crier Sep 2020 #5
If everyone in America gave just one dollar, maybe Mark Burnett would CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #9
Yeah, that'd be great. Alacritous Crier Sep 2020 #10
I came up with that concept when bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan. CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #13
Trump's thugs wear uniforms IronLionZion Sep 2020 #8
It's all in context. CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #12
You know he WANTS to say the N-word. He's just too chicken. tclambert Sep 2020 #14
It WILL happen. CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #16
Snot-nosed scumpublican bucolic_frolic Sep 2020 #3
Taking their food right off their plates? Ohiogal Sep 2020 #6
One of the protesters picked up a beer from in front of some diners and drank it NT ripcord Sep 2020 #20
93% of BLM protest have been peaceful duforsure Sep 2020 #7
There's a scene from an episode of Head of the Class where a student asked CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #11
Many of these protestors don't care for Biden either. BlueTsunami2018 Sep 2020 #15
Exactly. nsd Sep 2020 #18
Yep roman88 Sep 2020 #19
Isn't Pennsylvania a swing state? Maxheader Sep 2020 #17
I'm from this area and what those protesters did was awful ebbie15644 Sep 2020 #21
'Thugs, vs Us', yep, that's going to be the campaign slogan he runs on, no doubt Baclava Sep 2020 #22

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
1. I've never wanted another human being to die so much in my life.
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 11:45 AM
Sep 2020

Every day he continues to breath oxygen is torture to me.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
2. The secret has been out about Thug being dog-whistle for the N-word ever since the
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 11:47 AM
Sep 2020

Fox Noose Network made it so. The uncreative reich wing needs to come up with something new.

Alacritous Crier

(3,815 posts)
5. I'm still giving...
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 11:51 AM
Sep 2020

a 50% chance that he drops the N-word in public sometime before Election Day.

If his polls keep tanking lower, it'll raise to 75%.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
9. If everyone in America gave just one dollar, maybe Mark Burnett would
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 11:57 AM
Sep 2020

release The Apprentice tapes that Tom Arnold talked about a few years back.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
13. I came up with that concept when bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan.
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 12:07 PM
Sep 2020

The news said he was worth $250 million. I knew we could easily outbid whatever was promised to their government.

Mark Burnett wouldn't reject an offer of $330 million for some outtakes.

IronLionZion

(45,427 posts)
8. Trump's thugs wear uniforms
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 11:54 AM
Sep 2020

I get that Fox News wants to use it for race, but the word definitely applies to his storm troopers and many of his deplorable supporters too.

tclambert

(11,085 posts)
14. You know he WANTS to say the N-word. He's just too chicken.
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 12:13 PM
Sep 2020

C'mon, Trump, prove how brave and manly you are, and how much above the rules you are. Go on and say what you really mean.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
16. It WILL happen.
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 12:22 PM
Sep 2020

It will easily spill out since he says it in private.

The thing is: if he knows it's wrong, why does he do it in the first place? That's also a question for the evil-gelicals who worship their Satanic leader.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
7. 93% of BLM protest have been peaceful
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 11:54 AM
Sep 2020

100% of trumps whining they are to blame for the violence is bs. BLM people didn't have armed people ready to promote conflict shooting them with paint guns from their trucks just the other day, or bring AR-15's to murder people with , or run over people with their cars. Comments like this just show trumps incapable and not presidential enough to handle the job. Another ad to show his intent is to incite and divide, and lie.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
11. There's a scene from an episode of Head of the Class where a student asked
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 12:02 PM
Sep 2020

about the people rioting in Chicago in 1968. The actor who played Johnny Fever in WKRP played the teacher in this sitcom.

His reply was, "No, no. The people were protesting. It was the police who were rioting."

History often repeats itself.

BlueTsunami2018

(3,491 posts)
15. Many of these protestors don't care for Biden either.
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 12:14 PM
Sep 2020

6:37 of this video.



Most of these people aren’t partisans.

nsd

(2,406 posts)
18. Exactly.
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 01:00 PM
Sep 2020

There's no reason for Biden to be held responsible for everyone who goes to a protest. The beer-drinking woman was just a jerk; she has nothing to do with Biden.

 

roman88

(52 posts)
19. Yep
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 01:25 PM
Sep 2020

These lame "protestors" are just a sude effect of the Trump times. When Biden takes office I hope he stamps them down

ebbie15644

(1,214 posts)
21. I'm from this area and what those protesters did was awful
Tue Sep 8, 2020, 02:04 PM
Sep 2020

some will be prosecuted. That isn't "peaceful protesting" that's intimidation

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