General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Sweden thing: Was it more than just a bizarre non-sequitur?
So yesterday Trump went all Kellyanne Conway and invented a nonexistent terrorist attack in Sweden. But was it really all that random?
IIRC during the campaign, Trump's alt-right legion of trolls on Reddit decided they were going to pick a fight with Sweden. I have no idea what spurred it and it's hard to explain Trump trolls in the first place but they invaded the Sweden board on Reddit and started posting their idiotic memes like the degenerates they are.
So it could be possible Trump's WTF moment was not out of the blue but rather a winking Carol Burnett ear tug to the otherwise politically undesirable alt-right.
dawg
(10,624 posts)They put the lie to all of their right-wing "so-called" economic theories.
Progressive dog
(6,922 posts)stuff up. Truth is not their friend.
lame54
(35,335 posts)the guy's fucking nuts
he is only still in there because of greedy republicans who love tax cuts more than their country
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,220 posts)I agree Trump's no masterful genius but I do think he might have been throwing his extremist base a bone without being too obvious.
lame54
(35,335 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,220 posts)I don't know, probably just a general sense that Trump hadn't sold them out.
Squinch
(51,059 posts)last time I was in the chair, about how Sweden is being ruined by refugees who were marauding through the streets and creating havoc.
I told her that I had very recently spent a good deal of time in Sweden, and no such thing was happening.
My eyewitness report had no effect on her belief.
It was completely bizarre.