Originally Posted by Extenda (Post 4022969)

What does it mean when the president says words? I guess some stuff is literal, some is figurative, some is trolling, some is 4D chess. The best part is we can all individually decide what it means in our own minds for each specific statement!

Originally Posted by AAdvocate (Post 4022964)

I am not baiting you. I am asking a group of people who overreact and are continuously "shocked" at everything the man says over the last 12 years, the rest of us get massive fatigue at your feigned outrage.

First of all, who threatens "genocide" and ends it with "God Bless the Great People of Iran!" So you think he wants to kill them all? Really?

He also says that "maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?" again showing support to the people, who he supposedly wants to genocide? Give me a break.

The President has made threats to destroy Iranian infrastructure which is what he is alluding to when he says a whole civilization will die. They will be brought back to the stone age, i.e. no power no transportation. Civilizations die all the time in human history without the population itself being eliminated. Think of the Roman and Persian empires.

The targeting of civilian infrastructure to stop military advancement or to pressure a government has been done in nearly every U.S. conflict in its history, most recently Iraq and Afghanistan. Damns, bridges, roads, airports, power plants have all been eliminated in those conflicts. Is today your first day?

But hey, since you guys think he is TACO or whatever then you have nothing to worry about. But that lame talking point fed to you by Democratic operatives goes all out the window when you try to make the argument that Turmp is supposedly some unhinged dictator. Can't have it both ways.

Originally Posted by Judge Smails (Post 4022972)

Ok...There's some serious mental gymnastics going on here on your part. Feigned outrage? I guess I was pretty spot on with the gaslighting. To answer your first question, a facetious nutjob would say that. He also said TONIGHT a civilization would die. Trump is not sophisticated enough to compare what he's doing to the fall of Rome. The Roman civilization also did not die, it evolved. Listen, I get Trump's 'stupid tweets,' but where is the line drawn? Sometimes I think people just willfully forget the guy making 'empty' genocidal threats holds the codes to the most powerful weapons mankind has ever seen, with the destructive power to end life on Earth. I'm not being overly dramatic saying that.

Originally Posted by AAdvocate (Post 4022973)

No mental gymnastics, just facts and reality of which you were unable to refute.

Originally Posted by Judge Smails (Post 4022974)

Weak response bro. You know what he said went too far.

Originally Posted by AAdvocate (Post 4022975)

Weak response? You didn't refute any one of my points, my response was to your WEAK responce. Plus you still have to prove that President Trump threatened Genocide.

Originally Posted by Judge Smails (Post 4022976)

Just wow. Minutes of my life I will never get back.

Originally Posted by AAdvocate (Post 4022979)

Since you only quoted part of my post I'll take it as capitulation on your part. Also you never addressed (other then some ignorant reference to the Roman Empire which never really refuted my point):

First of all, who threatens "genocide" and ends it with "God Bless the Great People of Iran!" So you think he wants to kill them all? Really?

Originally Posted by Judge Smails (Post 4022982)

I'm also sorry that I wouldn't get into a dissertation on the Roman Empire. You can go ahead and research that one yourself.

Originally Posted by Judge Smails (Post 4022982)

I said a facetious nutjob would say that. Try reading next time. I'm also sorry that I wouldn't get into a dissertation on the Roman Empire. You can go ahead and research that one yourself.

The 'maybe something wonderful can happen' could have very well meant 'maybe they'll capitulate to my demands before I destroy their civilization' also.