Dipping the bullets
by digby
The terrorist who killed so many people in Germany said just before crime, “by God’s will we will slaughter you pigs, I swear, we will……— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2016
slaughter you. This is a purely religious threat, which turned into reality. Such hatred! When will the U.S., and all countries, fight back?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2016
That was today from the guy who’s been telling this sickening, apocryphal story about American general Blackjack Pershing in the Spanish American war for the last 18 months to rapturous crowds:
“They were having terrorism problems, just like we do. And he caught 50 terrorists who did tremendous damage and killed many people. And he took the 50 terrorists, and he took 50 men and he dipped 50 bullets in pigs’ blood — you heard that, right? He took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pigs’ blood. And he had his men load his rifles, and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people. And the 50th 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? Twenty-five years, there wasn’t a problem.”
Here’s another occasion of him saying it.
If the terrorist said he would slaughter pigs, it’s no more a religious threat than that made by the president-elect of US, dozens of times. Two wrongs don’t make a right of course and the carnage at the market in Berlin is horrifying.
But it doesn’t make anyone safer if our leaders talk like terrorists. This isn’t the WWE and trash talk has serious, dangerous consequences.
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