Over at Little Green Footballs, Charles Johnson posted about a speech given by Donald Trump, in which he says the following:
Trump repeated – favorably – an apparent myth about how General John Pershing summarily executed dozens of Muslim prisoners in the Philippines with tainted ammunition during a guerilla war against the occupying United States.
“He took fifty bullets, and he dipped them in pig’s blood,” Trump said. “And he had his men load his rifles and he lined up the fifty people, and they shot 49 of those people. And the fiftieth person he said ‘You go back to your people and you tell them what happened.’ And for 25 years there wasn’t a problem, okay?”
The story appears to be a hoax spread via e-mail forwards, according to rumor tracker Snopes.com with no evidence it occurred.
The moral of the tale, according to Trump: “We better start getting tough and we better start getting vigilant, and we better start using our heads or we’re not gonna have a country, folks.”
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Trump was unimpressed with waterboarding, a banned interrogation tactic that he has pledged to bring back against suspected terrorists, and supplement with far worse forms of abuse.
“Is it torture or not? It’s so borderline,” he said. “It’s like minimal, minimal, minimal torture.”
It’s shocking to me that people are actually saying there’s no difference between the parties, and that a vote for Hillary Clinton is no different than a vote for a Republican. I even heard a friend of mine say that there wasn’t a difference between Scalia and Sotomayor.
People, this is out of control.
Work your ass off for your candidate. Man the phone banks. Donate. Canvass. Try like hell to convince your friends that your candidate is the best choice. But can we please, please, please remember what we’re up against? This election is possibly the scariest of my lifetime. The GOP is running an overtly racist and fascist campaign, promising untold misery for millions of our fellow Americans, and people from my side of the aisle are acting like it’s not happening and there’s not a drop of difference between the Democrats and this racist monstrosity that’s taken over the Republican party and threatens us all.
Update 1:
Who can forget how wonderful things were when we had a government filled with folks like this?
https://youtu.be/bO2p0KHyzpw
Cassel: If the president deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him?
Yoo: No treaty…
Cassel: Also no law by Congress — that is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo…
Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.