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Buckeyeblue

(5,499 posts)
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 08:24 AM Oct 2018

Trump is trying to bait the left into doing something stupid

Trump is more of a counter puncher. If he has to initiate he does it with a sucker punch. I think his latest rhetoric is to try to get someone on the left to do something stupid, to incite violance of some sort, so that he can react to it.

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Trump is trying to bait the left into doing something stupid (Original Post) Buckeyeblue Oct 2018 OP
I hope no one falls into that trap. Trump and his supporters will jump on it. Arkansas Granny Oct 2018 #1
good thing the left is smarter than him samnsara Oct 2018 #2
Smarter and non violent. That has to piss him off to no end. SammyWinstonJack Oct 2018 #3
Would if he was capable of understanding. Now, Hortensis Oct 2018 #6
don't think dirty tricks by GOP won't stoop to something very low to cast blame elsewhere beachbum bob Oct 2018 #4
+1 2naSalit Oct 2018 #7
He's inciting me to crave a doughnut. Hortensis Oct 2018 #5

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Would if he was capable of understanding. Now,
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 09:27 AM
Oct 2018

the right used to often refer to us as smug, self righteous, bleeding heart, naive, arrogant, judgmental, disdainful. These all seem to suggest they realized we believed ourselves smarter and morally superior and felt defensive. No wonder smart manipulators have moved them away from defense of indefensible base attitudes and into attack modes.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
4. don't think dirty tricks by GOP won't stoop to something very low to cast blame elsewhere
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 09:09 AM
Oct 2018

with 9 days left, GOP facing annihilation on Nov 6th

2naSalit

(86,508 posts)
7. +1
Sun Oct 28, 2018, 11:24 AM
Oct 2018

Never give them any chance to take advantage, we've waited too fucking long for this opportunity to make corrections to keep our country alive.

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