If anyone still doubted Donald Trump‘s unsuitability for the White House, read his Twitter rants today, in which he manages to make the Pulse nightclub slaughter, the worst mass shooting in American history, all about him while once again calling for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.
Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don't want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2016
What has happened in Orlando is just the beginning. Our leadership is weak and ineffective. I called it and asked for the ban. Must be tough
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2016
To which Meghan McCain had a dead-on response:
.@realDonaldTrump You're congratulating yourself because 50 people are dead this morning in a horrific tragedy?
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) June 12, 2016
No, Trump, you were not right about radical Islamic terrorism. In fact, you have had the worst possible reaction to it: Xenophobia, via the act of blaming all Muslims for the actions of a tiny minority, a reaction that just escalates the hatred we saw on display in Orlando early this morning.
Republican fundraisers and strategists met with Mitt Romney last week in a too-little, too-late attempt to derail Trump’s candidacy after he launched a racist attack on a highly regarded federal court judge. At the Romney conclave, Meg Whitman, the billionaire Hewlett Packard CEO and failed California GOP gubernatorial candidate, compared Trump to genocidal demagogues like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and asked how the party could unite behind a man of such poor character and leadership.
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While the comparison may not be terribly apt, Whitman is right. These are the moments when the nation requires wise leadership, the kind the President Obama and many other leaders provided today, the kind of leadership Trump’s narcissism and complete lack of compassion make impossible.
It’s time for the Republican Party to do the right thing.
Bob LaBlah
Acts of terrorism such as this along with fools about to be elected have made me now regret throwing away this past Thursdays flyer from Cabela’s. Get one while you can is now my motto. Under martial law you won’t be able to.
ricardo1
I am NO fan of Trump, but at least he took a firm stance against the crazed Islamists unlike Obama (who made no mention of them).
Enough is enough–we need to call out violent homophobes whether it is popular or not.
ricardo1
@Bob LaBlah: LGBT will really need to protect ourselves.
GC1985
Donald Trump is now even being slammed by other Republicans. This is the man some on here want because he is a loud mouth moron. He couldn’t even mention the people who died. Trump and his ideas would collapse this nation. He will lose because of his hate.
GC1985
@ricardo1: Trump has no clue what he is talking about and has no clear ideas or plans. He is a lying WRONG fool. He will lose big.
Bob LaBlah
@ricardo1: Its nice to see another member of the community who feels that this is not the time for holding hands and making a human circle around what is left of Pusle while singing Kumbai Ya, My Lord. Get real people. And let us not forget the the grand prize (and in the NYC parade) is only two weeks away. How do you control a crowd that large in a city that big with buildings that high?
A stronger response or statements (along with follow-ups) is what is required. Even Marco Rubio spoke out against this b/s.
ricardo1
@Bob LaBlah: Thanks–I think there are more of us out there.
I am sick and tired of us having to pay the price. First it was homophobic assaults, then it was Imams preaching against us, now it is 50 human beings paying with their LIVES.
I am tired of it. I don’t want any more of us to tolerate ridiculous hate just because the perpetrators happen to be Muslim.
Captain Obvious
More pawns buying into the anti-Muslim hysteria once again just in time for yet another war. No wonder the rest of the world hates America.
wmca_goodguys
@GC1985:”… because of his hate…” And Islamic ideology (which so many of our politicians seem not to want to protect us from) isn’t full of hate/intolerance?! Radicals want to kill us,especially us gays! HRC receives money from the Arabs. She’s hardly one to “protect” us. We’re not going to make it if the “appeasement” of the Obama administration continues under Clinton (which it surely will). If Trump is so much the disaster some people here predict, we can take care of that in 2020.
GC1985
@ricardo1: Keep on scoring those political Brownie points. Trump is an asshole who couldn’t even mention the victims. People like you are the worst kind of sell out.
GC1985
@wmca_goodguys: Trump got bailed out by a certain Saudi prince. You are so full of political bullshit. Radicals? You trump supporters are demented. You would make this country more vulnerable. You will lose big in November. Trump is a vile idiot who will not protect this country.
GC1985
@wmca_goodguys: You Trump supporters will lose big. Hatred will not win. You will lose big.
He will not win because he is NOT representing this country. And he certainly doesn’t represent our community.
Stilinski26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBlwxqqAprQ
Speaker at Orlando Mosque says all gays must die.
GC1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w83kIAfuKoE
Christian pastor calls for death of gays.
NateOcean
The orange turd.
Stilinski26
@GC1985: Well Religion leads to hatred I agree but you seem to be very defensive when others criticize Islam for some reason.Another apologists.
Brian
Thank you, Mr Trump, for speaking the truth. We gays appreciate your honesty and determination in protecting our borders. You have our votes
Kangol
@ricardo1: So the violent hom0phobe who was caught on his way to “harm” LGBTIQ people at LA Pride was not Islamic, so does he get a pass? North Carolina Republicans passing a transphobic law that has led to increased threats, violence and a bombing was not the work of Islamists, so do they get a pass? I’m just trying to understand the fixation on Islamism when the threats against LGBTIQ are coming from a range of directions.
And when the President of the United States and the US military are currently bombing ISIL, as well as Islamists in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We have multiple wars against Islamists going on. So what more do you want? For Barack Obama to say the words “Islamic terrorism”? Will that change things? Or stop the anti-gay rhetoric and hate coming not just from Islamists but from Christianists like Ted Cruz, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick in Texas, Alabama Judge Roy Moore, who refuses to follow US law and allow same-sex marriage, etc.? Do they get a pass because they’re not Islamists though they hate LGBTIQ pepole just as much?
GC1985
@Stilinski26: Nope. I can’t stand any of them. And Islamic fundamentalism must be crushed.
@Brian: Trump doesn’t have any ideas on how to “protect our borders”. He is a liar. You do not speak for the community. Most of us are voting for the person who will truly protect this nation. Hillary!
Brian
Go Trump!!! You were right all along. Hillary’s open borders policy will turn them into a sieve. Hillary does not understand gay men and the hurt they feel.
Cagnazzo82
Imagine having to deal with Trump in office anytime there’s an attack of any kind.
The guy is a pure, pure idiot. He literally reacts like an internet comment section rather than 70 year-old fugging adult.
He disgusts me.
GC1985
@Cagnazzo82: I can’t imagine the damage he would do this country. People like Brian didn’t learn with Dubya.
Trump would imprison gays and continue to take money from Saudi princes.
GC1985
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-saudi-arabia-911-business-deals-a7038991.html
So much for all the tough talk. What he does behind closed doors is very different than what he says.
He actually does major business deals with them. He’s a snake oil salesman… a swindling liar. I was gonna call him a used car salesman, but that would be an insult to used car salesmen.
Realitycheck
Hey Trump this was not about you!!! 50 people die and no you don’t get to congratulate your narcissistic tiny self, but thank you for self imploding once again.
GC1985
Don’t like Queerty?
http://fortune.com/2016/06/12/donald-trump-orlando-shooting/?xid=yahoo_fortune&yptr=yahoo
Check out the right wing conservative source “Fortune”. They even slammed Trump.
He indeed is a vile toad.
Brian
Go Trump. You alone stand for true gay rights. Obama and Hillary are throwing gays under the bus by refusing to call out Islam. Go, my Mr Trump. We gays love you.
GC1985
@Brian: You speak for yourself only. I for one will never agree or stand with that idiot. Trump stands for himself and would probably make homosexuality illegal.
ricardo1
@GC1985: You are really desperate for attention aren’t you? You have been dominating EVERY thread on this topic with your nutty opinions. Why not let some other people talk?
I’m sure you’ll just have to get the last word on this one too.
ricardo1
@GC1985: Give me a break. Trump is a rich New Yorker. He is probably friends with plenty of gays and I wouldn’t be shocked if he experimented a little himself.
ricardo1
@Kangol: Actually I think we should stop meddling in the Middle East and stop taking in Muslim “refugees.” I.e. stop bombing their countries and creating all of the refugees in the first place. Most of them would prefer to live in their home countries. How about that? You are so conformist you can’t see that that might be the best solution.
And NO, I do not give a “free pass” to virulent homophobes who are not Muslim. I think they should all rot in prison. However, when is the last time some crazy Christian shot up a gay bar or threw a gay person off of a building?
Bob LaBlah
@ricardo1: “I’m sure you’ll just have to get the last word on this one too.”
Now do you understand why “she” has no friends and gets beaten up at every bar she enters? He can’t understand for the life in him that is why he can’t keep a steady job.
ricardo1
@GC1985: You are just a paid schill for Hillary. At least I am an independent.
ricardo1
@Bob LaBlah: Lol… I think GC1985 needs to take his meds… I’m ok with people sharing their opinions, but he is so strident and is dominating every thread with the same talking points.
Bob LaBlah
@ricardo1: Seriously, I believe he is a teenager playing “grown up.” He never comments in regards to life experiences and it is always in the negative when he does. Too bad you weren’t around two years ago. You too would have been trying to figure a way to slap the shit out of him.
He has even claimed to be Reubenana but when confronted with the age he claims he is (31) and seeing how young Reubenana is and how recent the photos on google are of “her” he backed off quick from that claim. He is probably still crying about being exposed in that lie.
Xzamilio
Trump will run this country into the ground and has the absolutely wrong and most dangerous approach to taking on Islamic extremism… and that is precisely why he has a good chance at taking the White House. There are no middle ground with these people… you either bend over backwards excusing the Islam religion from any culpability in creating these types of people, or you wipe the whole religion off the planet as if that will solve anything. We’ll all be dead and gone before something substantial happens here, or will there be a catastrophic event that forces Islam to reform immediately and remove the regressive ideas from its moderate circles?
Bob LaBlah
@Xzamilio…………..are you suggesting that it is time to sit ALL of these religions down at the table and tell them point blank that either show PROOF of this man-in-the-sky along with his so called kingdom where the sun seems to always be shining (when thought of) or from this day on you will begin your “worship at 12am on a designated night of the week and shut the hell up by 11:59pm that same day or else?
I sure as hell think its time to tell ALL of them that. I mean ALL as in worldwide. Case closed. Jury dismissed.
Kangol
@ricardo1: @Kangol: Actually I think we should stop meddling in the Middle East and stop taking in Muslim “refugees.” I.e. stop bombing their countries and creating all of the refugees in the first place. Most of them would prefer to live in their home countries. How about that? You are so conformist you can’t see that that might be the best solution.
So conformist? Just absurd. So after Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush repeatedly entangled the US in Middle Eastern wars you think the US can just stop “meddling”? Did you forget that Barack Obama tried to end the horrible wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and people like your beloved Donald Trump and the Republicans brayed that the US wasn’t fighting enough, that he needed to go in with more troops and bomb more? They wanted more war over there, not less. He’s actually struck at the heart of both ISIL and the Taliban, but of course it’s never enough. I agree that we shouldn’t be over there, but the GOP always wants to be in wars, so what do you propose? And refugees aren’t the problem. This terrorist Mateen was an American citizen, not a refugee.
And NO, I do not give a “free pass” to virulent homophobes who are not Muslim. I think they should all rot in prison. However, when is the last time some crazy Christian shot up a gay bar or threw a gay person off of a building?
Crazy Christians are passing laws to strip away LGBTIQ rights. The Dominionists like Texas’ governor Tweet quotes that appear to support the massacre. The Roman Catholic and Mormon Churches condemn LGBTIQ people and spent millions to prevent same-sex marriage. They are killing people from the inside and fomenting anti-gay violence all over the globe. Look at Uganda. Look at Russia. Look at Jamaica. And on and on. Don’t think Christian leaders in Europe love LGBTIQ people either.
Xzamilio
@Bob LaBlah: Wouldn’t that be nice if we could actually do that…. or just tell Jews, Christians, and Muslims that they’re all worshiping the same damn god, the difference being the Jews made him up first after copying local gods and rituals.
ricardo1
@Kangol: You are simply a conformist apologist for the democrats. I will allow NEITHER party to take me for granted. I hold both Dems and Repubs to account. When will you do the same?
So other countries are passing homophobic laws…now does that mean we need more immigrants from those cultures? Will we finally understand that people from primitive theocratic cultures don’t belong here?
Bottom line: I want NO more meddling in useless wars for the corporations (whether started by Dems or Repubs) and I want NO more “refugees” from stone aged cultures coming here. Got it?
ricardo1
@Bob LaBlah: Wow…just wow…I go with my original thought: he really needs to take his meds.
Brian
Go, Trump, go!!! Only you will protect us from open borders and Hillary Clinton. Your policies will save gay lives, Mr Trump.
GC1985
@ricardo1: Nutty? I represent the majority of LGBTQ people. You do not. You are the true nut in thinking Trump is some of savior to you. You call everybody a schill. You’re just a weak person with no real intellect. I am not paid by anyone. Trump is no friend of gay people. He has had anti-gay opinions well documented from at least 2011. That was years before he ever ran for office.
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: You are a mentally unstable man who is sliding down into absolute lunacy. You keep going on and on about some stupid video you posted two years ago. Life experiences? I already went through that with you. What are you life experiences then? Asides from watching pornos in your decrepit apartment?
@ricardo1: You seem to call everyone a schill or an apologist. I think you’re totally full of sh*t. How is that?
@ricardo1: You need to be put on antidepressants. You think everybody is out to get you. Sorry but I and tens of millions of other US Citizens will not allow Trump to buy his way into office.
GC1985
@ricardo1: “I want NO more “refugees” from stone aged cultures coming here. Got it?”
So what do we do with refugees?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/world/europe/500-may-have-died-in-sinking-of-migrant-boat-in-mediterranean-un-says.html?_r=0
Why don’t you say it? Let them sink in the ocean.
Refugees are people too. Most are fleeing violence committed onto their own families, you unstable nut. Daesh has perhaps killed over 200,000 people in Iraq and Syria… many women and children. So lets just thrown them back to the lions?
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: And I slapped the shit out of you too many times to count the last two years… exposing you as a fraud with your video collection of drag queens and bad pornos. Bob… is there something you’re not telling us? I can’t imagine what you look like in drag.
Bob LaBlah
@Xzamilio…………….I am sure you meant to say “telling the same damn lie about their being a god, heaven, who gets to go and who doesn’t etc……..
I think it is time to explain to the world that religion is a BELIEF, not reality. Haven’t you ever asked yourself if Jesus did walk out of that cave as in being resurrected then shouldn’t that mean he STILL walks amongst us? I don’t recall ever hearing where the hell he walked to once he walked out of that cave or when he passed either. Its all a cruel lie when you look at all of it and its beliefs, denomination be damned.
GC1985
@Xzamilio: After today, I think Trump’s chance of taking the White House is pretty close to zero.
Bob LaBlah
@GC1985: Still jealous of Reubenana, huh? Don’t you wish your ol’ toothpick legged ass could look that good? At least she is getting paid to model. You couldn’t even make it as a fichera in the local Mexican bars over in East L.A. You aint good for shit, or should I say that is all your good for. That and claiming to be beautiful people until your lie is exposed on google, yahoo, or bing. They all carry Reubenana’s picture that this lying ass lil whore claimed was her.
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: Wow more venom… and it’s a wonder why you’re voting for Trump. You truly are a r@cist thing. I work full time and a graduate degree. What have you done with your life? I’m not talking about you doing drag shows in alleyways… that doesn’t work. What lie is that? You are truly a vile little queen.
ricardo1
@Bob LaBlah: Remember what I said about GC1985 needing to get the last word? He is just a poor little thing who is desperate for attention.
Bob LaBlah
@ricardo1: “He is just a poor little thing who is desperate for attention.”
That’s why I don’t understand why she claimed to be Reubenana, of all people. It was such an easy lie to expose.
Brian
Announcing the new President of the United States…Mr Donald Trump.
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: You need to stop using your second account Ricardo1. Couldn’t have you been more original? It was just too obvious. Keep it up… You are on your way in getting banned again.
@Brian: Not in a million years.
gayhope1990
Trump is the worst jerk in your country.No wonder he is democrat one day,the other he’s independant,the next one he’s republican.He’s a liar and a jerk.
GC1985
Keep thinking Trump has your interests in heart. After today he just sees you as political capital. He doesn’t give a sh*t about you. He wouldn’t even recognise the victims. He just wanted his ego stroked. This will be remembered till november when he gets shellacked.
So try and actually think before supporting this fool.
DCguy
EVERYBODY said that there would be another mass shooting. He is trying to claim credit for guessing that something would happen that has happened every single week since the Newton massacre.
The GOP Congress voted down a bill that would have prevented people being reviewed or on the terrorist watch list from buying weapons. This guy fit that category, he wouldn’t have been able to purchase those guns but the GOP prevented that.
So the GOP demonizes LGBTs, they have an entire plank of their platform attacking us, AND they vow to block ANY attempt at gun control.
What happened in Orlando is exactly what they wanted to happen. Somebody who shouldn’t have been able to buy an assault rifle bought it because of a law they blocked, and killed a group of people that they hate.
Charlie in Charge
Trump added fuel to this fire. His insane words do not protect anyone. He has no plans to take away assault rifles. The shooter was an American born citizen, Trump and his kind did nothing and will do nothing to protect us.
GC1985
@DCguy: Add to that Florida has absolutely minimal gun control law thanks to successive Republican governors. Remember Jeb? State laws matter too… And Florida is lacking.
gayhope1990
The leftist agenda helped that.
CaliKyle
@Captain Obvious: At this stage in the game, “…pawns buying into the anti-Muslim hysteria..” Are less problematic, generally speaking, than the willfully blind, closed minded deniers of the inherent violence and hate pervasive in certain cultures and religions. Violence and hate can be found in many, but Islam was founded by a pathologically narcissistic war mongerer who sanctions bloodshed as a means of spreading his self centered delusions. There is no other religion I know of that was founded by a violent prophet. Have adherents used violence as a means of spreading their so called faith? Yes, but they did not nor could not look to the actions of their founding prophet as someone who also viciously subjugated and oppressed other populations. Only in Islam can they legitimately do that. Islam also is the only religion currently executing people for merely being homosexual. We may have hateful scumbags in our country like Kim Davis and Ted Cruz, but western culture would not today tolerate Evangelicals stoning gay men to death, for example. So to factor out Islam completely as a factor is naive. Any culture or religion that oppresses others such as females, blacks, gays, etc is a problem and should rightfully be considered and openly labeled as “less than.”
GC1985
@CaliKyle: Christianity… The Inquisition, the subjugation of millions of natives, the usage by various dictators to justify crimes, the involvement in various dirty wars in South America (by the Catholic Church)… I could keep going.
They all suck, including Islam.
gayhope1990
@CaliKyle:Hear Hear!Don’t listen the lefties they’re so naive.
GC1985
@gayhope1990: You call Latinos names and make fun of people you don’t like. You are a freaking liar!
gayhope1990
@GC1985:I didn’t call names Latinos it’s you I insulted.If you were French I will call you froggy if you were Asian chink.Not by racism but because I hate you I just wanted to use the worst against you to hurt you.Stupid leftist
GC1985
@gayhope1990: You called them names. It is r@cist. You should be banned immediately, you stupid mentally sick right wing skinhead!
GC1985
and you couldn’t hurt a fly.
You’re a total scumbag. You are a PATHETIC little boy who hasn’t seen the world.
ricardo1
@Brian: So right, Brian, so right.
monroerob69
Read the real tweet not the one edited by CNN you fucking morons