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2016 Postmortem

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gaspee

(3,231 posts)
Sun Aug 14, 2016, 09:58 AM Aug 2016

Ran across a scary Trump supporter [View all]

on Facebook. I quickly unfriended him, but now I am wishing I had reported him to the Secret Service.

A little backstory - I will try to make it not tl;dr

I am pretty well known in a niche area (showdogs) and because of that, I get a lot of friend's requests that since I only use it for the dogs, I approve routinely. I don't know 90% of the 4000 people on my friends list.

So this guy is posting about how he has never hated anyone in his life how much he hates Hilary and thinks all Clintons including Chelsea's children should be hanged and Hilary drawn and quartered. It went on and on in the comments.

I quickly unfriended him and thought about it again later after I was no longer in shock at the absolute hatred - using misogynistic slurs etc - the guy (and his friends) were absolutely deranged. I normally back away and just completely disentangle from the few I've run across and I do not go places frequented by Trump supporters.

I can't stop thinking about it though - just the level of hatred is so intense - and Trump just keeps ramping things up. I do not think this is going to end well when Hilary wins in a landslide. I tend not to see it because I don't use Twitter and don't go to Reddit and don't read comments on newspaper articles

Trump is fomenting something and it is not good.

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