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[subrock]

Hopefully he gets cast as young Palpatine at some point soon

 

[David H Wong]

But that was the platform they ran on...

Can you provide me a link to the Trump campaign's platform - or even a quote from a speech - that says they wanted to force all American Muslims to join a registry?

As far as I've been able to tell, they've always suggested something very different:

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/16/13649764/trump-muslim-register-database

I wouldn't have voted for Trump even if the only other candidate was a bucket of dead squid, but let's cut the fearmongering, okay? You're obscuring the real dangers by screaming about fake ones.

 

[Krejlooc]

Can you provide me a link to the Trump campaign's platform - or even a quote from a speech - that says they wanted to force all American Muslims to join a registry?

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/japanese-internment-camps-muslims-231538

 

[ryutaro's mama]

Eric Trump somehow reminds me of Patrick Bateman.

Never was there a more blatant lobby for an avatar quote.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Muslims: "We trust and believe you!"

-_-

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

Eric Trump somehow reminds me of Patrick Bateman.

Minus the charm and warmth.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Minus the charm and warmth.

Awww <3

 

[echoshifting]

The best part of this story for me came from a more detailed report...Amer mentioning he knows Dave Chapelle and Trump asking him to ask Dave to go easy on his dad. So Trump

As Amer and Eric got to talking, the comedian told him that he had toured with Dave Chappelle. When Eric heard that, he had a request: “Tell him to take it easy on [my dad].”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...p-muslim-comedian_us_5841a0d8e4b0c68e04806c4f

Of course Amer said nope

 

[SURGEdude]

Dude is so creepy. It's like he's wearing someone else's skin.

 

[cress2000]

I don't know that, but you haven't exactly given me reason to believe you won't.

 

[Frozenprince]

In a way this is worse, because they are admitting to blatantly pandering to racists and xenophobes.

And flat lying about campaign promises.

Awful precedent has been set.

 

[mugurumakensei]

But that was the platform they ran on...

they also ran on a platform of draining the swamp and being tough on companies to keep jobs in the US.
So far, we've gotten a lot of millionaires, billionaires, and career politicians, and Trump went with soft crony capitalism to keep 40% of Carrier's jobs in Indiana.

 

[Ganzlinger]

I doubt that there will be any registry or wall.

 

[Messofanego]

"Come on man, you really think we're going to kill millions of Jews? Chill, brah!"

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

"It was just a prank bro. A prank that worsened race relations and got brown people attacked bro"

 

[Theecliff]

Eric Trump somehow reminds me of Patrick Bateman.

bateman talks about both donald trump and the art of the deal regularly in the novel. it's pretty telling that even twenty years ago a fictional serial killer and rapist who embodied neoliberalism taken to the extreme was written to look up to trump like a hero.

 

[Jorok Goldblade]

But on the flipside young Gary Busey could play him.

SNL should hire Busey to play Donald. And not give him a script. Just let him be Busey.

 

[Goro Majima]

It's not "technically" a Muslim registry if they just reimplement NSEERS.

Just happens to feature mostly non-citizen individuals from predominantly Muslim countries. So that's the work around I guess.

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

Dat pivot

 

[VaultBoy101]

It was just a prank, bro

Edit: beaten like a poor kid who accidentally wandered his way into young Eric Trump's birthday extravaganza.

 

[sphagnum]

Hopefully he gets cast as young Palpatine at some point soon

Palpatine was charming though.

 

[M3z_]

If a party makes a habit of lying what evidence are you using to determine which statement is fact and which is a lie. Was his father lying to capture xenophobic voters or is his son lying to evade a probing question from a Muslim confronting him in public, how can this comic feel any sort of certainty in the authenticity of what he has been told. Which statement you feel is true and which is false is more likley just a reflection of your personal bias about what form of evil you think the Trumps present unless you are backing up your interpretation with evidence. Either statement could be true and regardless both realities would be gross and abhorrent.

 

[rtcn63]

Does this count as breaking kayfabe

 

[Living the Dream]

bateman talks about both donald trump and the art of the deal regularly in the novel. it's pretty telling that even twenty years ago a fictional serial killer and rapist who embodied neoliberalism taken to the extreme was written to look up to trump like a hero.

Holy shit. Gonna have to read this book again

 

[victreeb3l]

Not at all reassured.

 

[CosmicGroinPull]

"We"? I didn't realize the whole Trump family was voted to govern the country.

 

[Amalthea]

"We"? I didn't realize the whole Trump family was voted to govern the country.

If Trump could, he would. He signaled it often enough. Not to mention that narcisstic parents often just see their kids as an expansion of themselves rather than actual individuals.

 

[Roi]

"It's just a prank bro"

 

[interactivemonodrama]

I could imagine him being the next joker, he would do a better job than Jared that's for sure.

 

[SprachBrooks]

Eric Trump would be over-cast as an 80s cocaine date rape executive. You'd be like, "come on tone it down a little"

But on the flipside young Gary Busey could play him.

Look at his fucking Trump monogram sweater. Chill out wardrobe department!

Why is shit like this acceptable? I mean, the guy can't help how he looks. Criticise his policies and way he conducts himself all you want, but shit like this is just abhorrent and devolves into the same type of prejudice one holds against a Muslim bearded fellow. Oh he looks like a coke addict is no different than saying someone with a beard look like a terrorist.

Amazing how people unconsciously devolve into the same type of superficial judgement of character they deem others as terrible people for.

 

[Stinkles]

Why is shit like this acceptable? I mean, the guy can't help how he looks. Criticise his policies and way he conducts himself all you want, but shit like this is just abhorrent and devolves into the same type of prejudice one holds against a Muslim bearded fellow. Oh he looks like a coke addict is no different than saying someone with a beard look like a terrorist.

Amazing how people unconsciously devolve into the same type of superficial judgement of character they deem others as terrible people for.

On the other hand I made no mention of the fact that he supports his dad's virulent racism, stated proclivity for sexual assault, crooked business apparatus and the not inconsiderable damage done to the reputation and seriousness of the office.

But yes the limit should be comparison to 80s movie archetypes.

 

[Zubz]

So either he's lying and denying that this is something his dad's "Amalgamation of Civil Rights Violations" cabinet will totally do despite knowing that to be the case, or he's telling the truth and outing said shitty cabinet as lying to the horrible people that voted for it in the first place.

Either way, the statement should get everyone pissed off. Is this gaining any traction in mainstream media, or...

I could imagine him being the next joker, he would do a better job than Jared that's for sure.

Definitely the wrong Eric for the job, if the Eric Andre thread is anything to go by.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

I could imagine him being the next joker, he would do a better job than Jared that's for sure.

That's a pretty low bar, to be fair.

 

[GitarooMan]

But on the flipside young Gary Busey could play him.

Look at his fucking Trump monogram sweater. Chill out wardrobe department!

Busey in the cardigan in Lethal Weapon is like the perfect fit.

 

[Monocle]

Whoever said Trump's sons look like the kind of people who would go out on purge night were dead on.