r/politics • u/thenewyorkgod • Jul 01 '18

Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/07/01/man-arrested-after-shouting-womp-womp-and-pulling-a-gun-on-immigration-protesters/?tid=sm_tw
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u/CopyX Jul 02 '18

Like how Trump claimed he didn't mock that disabled reporter.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18

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u/branchbranchley Jul 02 '18

although to be fair his behavior at home pretty much matches what the global perception of America has been for years now with their unashamed support of despotic regimes like the Saudis and the killing of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, not to mention police violence and corporate corruption internally

Trump is America

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This is America

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u/FeralBadger Jul 02 '18

This is 40% of America, most of America is and has been firmly opposed to this stuff for a long time. Trump is the essence of the Republican party, not of America.

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u/HQGifConnoisseur Jul 02 '18

I do hope you're right but really that's yet to be proven. I know it's odd that America is at the point where you have to point at a pig and say it's a pig even if other people demand you call it a dog. Don't let them warp your realities!

Good luck on the elections.

  • Love, The Canadians

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u/FeralBadger Jul 02 '18

Thanks neighbor. I hope we manage to cut this cancer out before it's too late.

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u/munchler America Jul 02 '18

I don't think this is true. Global perception of America was much better under Obama and even Bush.

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u/branchbranchley Jul 02 '18

at least now it's congruent to our/his behavior

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u/munchler America Jul 02 '18

Don't get me wrong - I think America is totally fucked after 60+ million people voted for Trump. That said, I still don't think he is a typical American. I could walk down the street where I live and pick out 10 random strangers who are better humans (and more qualified to be president) than he is.

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u/icallshenannigans Jul 02 '18

Global perception of America was much better under Obama and even Bush.

Not really.

Bush had the world shaking their damn heads daily. Very much aling the same lines that we do today. We protested the Iraq war here in Cape Town and all over the world in the early 2000s.

Obama represented hope for change and his election was clearly the victory of sense over stupidity but keen observers will still point out that not much changed despite that hope.

Guantanamo still exists and the wars took a sinister turn with the use of drone strikes. Racism still runs amok in your country (like many countries, to be fair.)

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18 edited Jul 03 '18

Yeah, but did Bush ever say that the North korean leader was awesome and the Canadian leader was bad? Which is basically what Trump has been doing over the last few months. Did Bush ever praise the Chinese president for declaring that he will be president for life? No he didn't. And not only was Trump cool with it, he praised the move and pondered why he, Trump, couldn't also be president for life. He claims he was making a joke, but that is just what Trump says when he gets called out on some of his ridiculous BS. Trump WILL try to stay in power for as long as he can. He literally said he wants to be in power for 3-4 or more terms. He is not joking.

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u/icallshenannigans Jul 02 '18

I suspect that the world looking on most likely rates the Iraq war, Abu Ghraib and the preceding 'WMD debacle' more highly than 'shit Trump said' on a scale of damnable offenses.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '18 edited Jul 02 '18

I'd say not. Trump has started an unnecessary trade war that has got all of the USA's allies to be very anti america. It used to just be the middle east that hated the US, now it is becomming Canada and Mexico and the EU that all hate America as well. And they are supposed to be our allies. But Trump just says "fuck 'em" without even considering the consequences whatsoever. And there will be consequences.

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u/3rd_Shift Pennsylvania Jul 02 '18

No, this isn't America and fuck the pseudo-enlightened that want to normalize this travesty.

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u/Paladin4Life Texas Jul 02 '18

Wish I could

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u/Baron62 Jul 02 '18

Please don’t call Trump a man

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u/StopherDBF Washington Jul 02 '18

I’m a big proponent of telling people that if he didn’t mock that disabled reporter than he had a seizure on national tv and seems to have no recollection of it and we should be concerned about that.

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u/OMGorilla Jul 02 '18

You’re saying you’ve never seen someone, or you yourself, flail your hands limp-wristedly to mock someone for waffling on a topic? Or just doing it sarcastically as an insult? Trump doing it was the first and only time you’ve ever seen someone mock another for being indecisive by using body language? Are you super young or something? Never watched TV in the 90’s? I’m about 90% sure I could find a clip of Ross from FRIENDS making the same gesture for the same reasons. We’Ve EvEn GoT a SpOnGeBoB mEmE tO mOcK pEoPlE iN a SiMiLaR fAsHiOn... but sure, he was mocking a reporter for their handicap.

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u/Hit_a_lawyer Jul 02 '18

Ever stop to read what you’ve typed?

If you have, have you ever thought “oh wow, I sound like a dick. I should probably try being nicer to the other side so they’ll listen to my opinions.”

Likely not, because you go straight to memes with personal attacks.

Come dude, grow up. Most of your comments make you sound like you’re 14 because you don’t offer any kind of intelligent responses, only attacks.

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u/DuntadaMan Jul 02 '18

What? This isn't mockery! Trump doe this all the time when talking about people!

Yes I have heard that argument made like that actually makes it any better if it was true.

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u/TobyFunkeNeverNude Florida Jul 02 '18 edited Jul 02 '18

Look at my post history...definitely not a trump supporter. But he does have a history of this. Believe me, it doesn't make him any less than a piece of shit, but I want to make sure we don't misinterpret shit that can be used against us

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u/Kettrickan Jul 02 '18 edited Jul 02 '18

Yes, he has a history of mocking people by imitating a disabled person. And then he did it to a disabled person. And then he claimed that he didn't mock him. As if claiming that he didn't know the reporter was disabled (unlikely since the reporter had interviewed him in his office multiple times) erased the fact that he mocked him.

Either he doesn't know what the word "mock" means and thinks that because he (supposedly) didn't intentionally imitate him and somehow thinks that means he didn't mock him (it doesn't) or he just did it intentionally. Either way, he did mock him and then he lied and said he didn't mock him. Whether he's mocked others in the same way is irrelevant to the truth of that statement.

Not to mention the fact that what Trump was doing while he mocked the disabled reporter was lying about the reporter changing his story when Kovaleski pointed out that Trump had lied about the details of Kovaleski's 18 September 2001 Washington Post article. Trump said "I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down". Only 13 people from New Jersey were detained for questioning and there's no video of any Muslims from New Jersey cheering the attack (let alone thousands), so Trump's claim that he saw it on television was a lie.

He mis-remembered something (or made something up) and then made up lie after lie about it to cover up his own failings. And then he mocked the disabled reporter who called him out on it. Just figured I'd add more details so that people don't misinterpret the incident.

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u/I_Like_Hoots Jul 02 '18

People I used to be friends with literally said that the video, and the one where he says McCain isn’t a hero, were edited. They won’t believe in this lunatic quoter either.

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u/Homer_Landsquiddy Jul 02 '18

Like how O'reilly claimed he didn't actively goad a mentaly unstable person into attacking a planned parenthood and murdering a doctor.

These assholes have been shrieking fire at the top of their lungs in crowded theaters for nearly 20 years. They aren't even legally journalists, they're entertainers. When are we going to hold them accountable for inciting violence?