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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA silent thread for Sweden's Bowling Green Massacre, cited by Trump, which also did not happen
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trump-cites-non-existent-terrorist-attack-last-night-in-sweden-to-justify-muslim-ban-at-florida-rally/
At his rally in Melbourne, Florida on Saturday, Pres. Donald Trump listed a terror attack that never happened as part of the rationale for his controversial anti-Muslim travel ban.
In defending his executive order banning Islamic refugees and travelers from 7 Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., Trump said, When you look at whats happening in Germany, when you look at whats happening last night in Sweden Sweden! Who would believe this? Sweden!
They took in large numbers, theyre having problems like they never like they never thought possible, he went on.
However, there was no terror attack in Sweden on Friday. Perhaps, as some Twitter users suggested, the attack in Sweden happened in the same parallel universe as Kellyanne Conways fictitious Bowling Green massacre.
leftstreet
(36,119 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,054 posts)Please pass the Aquavit. Børk! Børk! Børk!
grantcart
(53,061 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,054 posts)And rolled right out the door
tblue37
(65,592 posts)JohnnyLib2
(11,213 posts)TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)True Dough
(17,431 posts)I was on the elliptical doing my workout and listening to Drumpf, which is far more painful than working out, during commercials of other shows. I caught that Sweden attack bit and figured I must have missed it in the news. Glad this thread jogged my memory and once again reinforces that Don the Con lies every time he opens his mouth.
Cha
(298,319 posts)Massacre"?
WTF.
rzemanfl
(29,589 posts)of radical Islamic terrorists, posting to the Internet on their home computers.
I weep for the Swedes who did not die in this non-event. At least they were spared Stockholm Syndrome by their sudden nonexistence. It's as if it never happened.
progressoid
(50,048 posts)#neverremember
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,828 posts)Yavin4
(35,460 posts)Because "Dancing Queen" can be seen as an act of aggression.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)their Waterloo.
procon
(15,805 posts)Docreed2003
(16,916 posts)moondust
(20,042 posts)Sad.
Brother Buzz
(36,523 posts)montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)Apparently they did a report last night.
rpannier
(24,355 posts)that police won't go into because of the danger
Yet, I've been through them, as has my older brother
I guess we're just braver (or more fool-hearty) people
rpannier
(24,355 posts)from never happening
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Sean Spicer explain that one.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)catbyte
(34,581 posts)-Steph-
(409 posts)At the same time they started creating fake terrorist attacks, they also started with their fake talking point about the media not covering certain terrorist attacks. Clearly that's a strategy and not a coincidence. They're trying to manipulate the masses into thinking these fake attacks might be real, and the media's just covering them up.
When Kellyanne made the false claim about the bowling green terrorist attack, she tried to pass it off as if she had accidentally misspoken. We all know that is a lie, because it was discovered that she had mentioned the fake terrorist attack on at least 3 different occasions. She didn't misspeak, and she wasn't misinformed about what had actually taken place. She was deliberately planting false seeds at the very same time they started wanting people to think the media doesn't cover certain terrorist attacks.
As a whole, they obviously don't want people believing anything that doesn't come straight from them, that's a given... but why specifically have they started wanting people to believe these fake terrorist attacks?
Obviously they want to scare people into supporting their bans, walls, and deportations.. but could it be even more than that? War or something else?
What's their end-game with these fake terrorist attacks?
Initech
(100,180 posts)I wouldn't put it past these scumbags.
Initech
(100,180 posts)spanone
(136,011 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...and a Swedish one, too. Not believe in a Bowling Green massacre? Only the cynical, in a cynical age, can say such things. One might as well say that the Germans never bombed Pearl harbor. Might as well say there never were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Might as well say that Hillary Clinton's e-mails weren't a threat to the republic!
WilmywoodNCparalegal
(2,654 posts)I KEA not stop crying. My thoughts are with the creators of the Bjorkenstorkesrgruggen bookcase.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
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