2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDonald Trump’s threat to imprison Hillary Clinton is a threat to democracy
Donald Trumps threat to imprison Hillary Clinton is a threat to democracyUpdated by Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp zack@vox.com Oct 9, 2016, 10:14p
There is no way to sugarcoat this: At Sunday nights presidential debate, Donald Trump threatened to throw Hillary Clinton in jail if he wins the presidency. This threatening to jail ones political opponents is how democratic norms die.
This is everything we feared about Donald Trump. His long history of trying to silence critics with lawsuits, his inability to let personal slights go, his pettiness: The nightmare scenario is that these would incline him to use the power of the presidency to forcibly silence his critics and opponents. Thats what is done by tin-pot dictators spanning the globe from North Korea to Zimbabwe. Thats what happens in countries where peaceful transitions of power are the exception, not the rule.
Donald Trump just threatened to bring that to America.
http://www.vox.com/2016/10/9/13222302/donald-trump-jail-hillary-clinton-second-debate
still_one
(92,216 posts)free pass for decades.
Cha
(297,275 posts)something he thought of to show what a big fucking dictator he could be.. like his hacker buddy, putin?
he was talking to his stupid fans and they got him in even deeper shite than he already is.. a quicksand of shite.
Thanks working~
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Does the jackass and his handlers really think they can win the election with these fools alone?
Cha
(297,275 posts)2012.. good times!
Hey Trump has the pu$$y grabbers vote locked up now Cha!
Congrats Trump???
Cha
(297,275 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,064 posts)Remember - at all his rally speeches, this is what he says constantly and then encourages his deplorables to start chanting "Lock her up!".
In fact, his entire debate performance was basically a disjointed and often incoherent stream of his memorized rally talking points. No matter what question he was asked, he always pivoted back to some section of his speeches, generally the parts completely unrelated to the topic.
Cha
(297,275 posts)I'm just reading it. that's how I can take the obnoxious, malignant, word salad-gish galloper.
Thanks!
IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)he talks tough about killing ISIS without any thought to the civilians living there
He wants to punish peaceful protesters at his rally by inciting violence
He's threatened all sorts of people with deportation, extreme vetting, or whatever.
This is classic bully tactics. Lock her up is just another form of intimidation of anyone who gets in his way.
BumRushDaShow
(129,064 posts)who hide behind the imagery of being a terrorizer.
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)...of nukes due to a spur of the moment decision.
gordianot
(15,238 posts)No need to list them all but the Clinton administration will get knocked when they HAVE to deal with Donald who is bound to writhe in his victimhood.
marybourg
(12,631 posts)by his successor for lying and suborning lies from the intelligence community about "weapons of mass destruction in Iraq", which caused thousands of American and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths.
But tRump is going to jail Hillary Clinton because of "her situation" (he's not even articulate enough to actually make the case). Fascism, pure and simple. An object lesson of how a Hitler could come to power in a civilized country like Germany. We are but a few percentage points from going down the same road.
We were "exceptional" as long as two great oceans protected us from the rest of the world. Once that protection was lost, it's clear that we're just the same as the rest of humankind.
I'm going back to bed now, cynical about my country for the first time in my nearly three-quarters of a century of life.
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)Like half of the repug party who dissed him, un-endorsed or called for him to step aside.
He could order a guillotine be placed on the WH lawn in his fantasy world. Maybe Jeb Bush would be first?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Fuhrer Trump's enemies list would fill volumes and make Nixon look like an amateur!
mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)Most trump supporters ready to sign up..
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Not for the President. He is supposed to enforce The Law across the board.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512490721
Lots more comments on the first thread about this article.
Joey Liberal
(5,526 posts)Trump, Pence, and Rudy G. = Stalin, Hitler, & Mussolini.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)into power and the horror that happened after is history.
We could do the same thing here.