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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by rattlesnakedave on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:27PM (#25693288)
This comment is entirely divorced from reality.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by wtallis on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:59PM (#25693917)
Would you care to be more specific about what you think is factually incorrect about that comment, or are you just glibly trying to borrow a phrase that is more commonly (and more accurately) used these days against Trump and his supporters?

It certainly seems to me that Trump and many of his most high-profile supporters have been remarkably free from serious consequences despite behavior that has been scandalous to an unprecedented degree. Going by the political and societal norms of just a few decades ago, Trump's political career should have been dead and buried dozens of times over.

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by disgrunt on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:20PM (#25694477)
The "kids in cages" and "very fine people" nonsense continues to get peddled despite not being rooted in reality. And lets not forget, Trump told everyone to drink bleach to treat COVID-19!
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by wtallis on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:40PM (#25694880)
You seem to be complaining about some stuff that's not actually mentioned in the comment at issue. That's not a great way to back up that "divorced from reality" assertion. And for the stuff that does appear to be at least somewhat relevant to the comment at issue, you haven't clarified anything about what you believe to be divorced from reality, merely asserted that it is all "nonsense".

The comment at issue did not use the phrase "kids in cages". That's you adding your personal color to a subject that you seem to object to being brought up in any manner at all. It looks like you're trying to build a straw-man or three, rather than justify the accusation that the comment in question is "entirely divorced from reality".

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by Bantros on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:33PM (#25697034)
"Or encouraging those "fine people" in Charlottesville who murdered a woman" is divorced from reality, because it didn't happen
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by wtallis on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:25AM (#25697956)
More specifically, it gets the order of events wrong. Trump's comments about "very fine people" came after the deadly white supremacist rally, so it's misleading to imply that those comments were in encouragement of the killing.

However, it's perfectly valid to construe Trump's comments as praise after the fact for the white supremacist rally, even though he specifically condemned the killing that resulted. Because Trump's assertions that there were "very fine people" on both sides and that there were many people on the alt-right side of that event who were not neo-Nazis or white nationalists are simply not credible claims. Trump was praising somebody. Even praising or encouraging the kind of white supremacists who don't get violent is abhorrent conduct on the part of the president, but the comment upthread exaggerated beyond this.

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by Bantros on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:06PM (#25702749)
"And you had people — and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists — because they should be condemned totally"
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by wtallis on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:50PM (#25703240)
Right. Trump said that, but that doesn't actually change the fact that that there was no reason for anybody to be showing up to support the alt-right side of that event unless they were in fact a neo-Nazi or white nationalist. Pretending that there was a significant faction of those torch wielders who somehow weren't white supremacists is just silly. But Trump definitely didn't intend to praise the empty set with his "very fine people" comment.