As a fact, not as a statement
Ah now comes the backtrack.
Time stamp is 11:20. He was scheduled to do a press conference starting at 11.
What does “It was spoken as a fact, not as a statement” mean? Was he trying to say he was describing what happens as opposed to making a threat? Poor confused wannabe fascist.
Anyway – do we believe his afterthought?
No.
As if he he has any clue about what honor means. His spin is insulting at best, the stupid bastard.
This is the real Doublespeak, of course; not a statement meant to instill contradictory beliefs in the speaker’s mind and thus induce a fugue of passive acceptance of Big Brother, but rather an obvious smokescreen meant to gaslight anyone who takes the plain reading seriously. I foresaw this excuse immediately when I glanced at your previous post. The interpretation being in this case that Trump is a very poor and disorganized speaker who obviously meant that when looting (or really any kind of civil disobedience) occurs, violence often follows (by and upon the looters/disobeyers themselves, obviously), and the government should step in to prevent the looters/disobeyers from harming one another. Of course, even this interpretation is fascist and implicitly racist, not to mention supremely insulting to Trump besides, but it’s rather different from an explicit threat to unleash the violence of the state on peaceful protesters, and this interpretive gap is precisely large enough to drive trollish outrage which Trump’s people will now take.
The cycle is quite simple, and doubtless obvious to you, but it bears spelling out explicitly: Say something horrendous but which could, when interpreted very generously, be taken not-quite-as-offensively; dare anyone to take offence; scream to high heaven how you’re being persecuted and misconstrued when offence is indeed taken; claim persecution and victimhood; feel smugly superior; repeat.
They will do this every time. And every time you do not give them the benefit of every doubt, every time you do not extend them the most generous interpretation imaginable, they will insist it’s because you’re an insipid knave who has had it out for them from the start and they shouldn’t have to listen to the likes of you.
Justice for George Floyd would have been the right course of action, but what we hear is the weak and disingenuous “honor his memory” fluff. Calling the ones who have a problem with military force being used, and the ones outraged by the injustice as “haters” like a 7 year old. Truly disgusting, but not surprising.
Seth – yep – and the bonus is, he gets to say the horrific thing and walk away laughing. Win/win.
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#4, I probably should read further before posting! That’s almost exactly what I said on the guest post…
Cheeto specifically mentioned shooting in connection with putting the military onto the streets. It was no passive-voice ‘when business become looted, people become shot’ nonsense.
To this point, it still seems that the 7 people in Louisville were NOT shot by police. Whether it was in individual Trumpist, a brawl between gun-toting protesters, or the police are trying to conceal there own participation, is still unsettled as of this morning.