Newtown tries and, so far, fails to get Trump to acknowledge Sandy Hook massacre

Fuck you, Jones and Trump

as I read this my heart split into pieces. I can't even imagine what it must be like to go through that tragedy , and deal with the effects of the fake news shit.

and not fuck in the good way.

it's already horrible to deal with but to deal with this shit also is just fucked up.

should really have pressed him on this

which is why things are so insane and fucked up now

It will happen - it always does. Will he acknowledge gun violence or will he tweet conspiracy theories? This must be so upsetting for the Newtown families. I can't begin to imagine.

These poor people loss so much as parent I could not imagine. I used to run to providence and on 84 I'd see the new town sign and it would just set me in to saying prayers for them whenever I went past the exit driving truck.

Even if it's carried out by blond haired, blue-eyed Aryan von Schutzstaffel while clad in Nazi regalia, he'll blame it on Muslims, and there'll be weeks of debate while we try to prove that the shooter was motivated by Islamic extremists.

Further, when the next shooting happens, the GOP will call for the nation to rally behind the president. His supporters will do it, of course, as will most of the allegedly remorseful people who voted for him, and those who don't suck up to him will be cast as unAmerican.

Further, this will be used as an excuse to boost defense and border spending, and they'll naturally have to siphon money out of social programs to do so.

Trump supporters would accept anything he says. The hate and bigotry is so depressing.

I've had bitter arguments on FB with local idiots who stand to lose their healthcare & other assistance, and they blindly insist that it'll all work out. "I trust him," they say.

I don't care if they screw themselves into impoverished decrepitude, but they're positively frothing at the mouth to drag the rest of us down with them.

My friends there like well it will all work out this is just the first stage there will be stage two and three I'm like your morons. You voted for this ass who wants to destroy every social program we have. I tell em I do not want to go back to the 1800s they do not get it , times I feel like beating them with a ball bat.

And, usually, the "other guy" is assumed to be brown.

Someone else on DU observed that Trump's chumps are even ok with losing some of their protections as long as some brown guy suffers more, and I'd say that that's about 100% accurate.

and Trump escalating the wars in Iraq and Syria with more civilians won't help tamp down terrorism either

we already have him to thank for 200 civilians dying in Yemen.

And they're Trump's biggest fans. Yeah they'll say they do because of Pizzagate (which was fake news), but then they act like the murder of 20 children never happened and that it's an act to get your guns taken away. It's pure hypocrisy and a steaming load of bullshit.

and instill martial law so he could put all patriotic white folks in camps, and that is the official position of the WH

his most loyal followers. No way he angers them unless he has no other choice.