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They Are All The Same
All Authoritarians try to jail the opposition.
Trump vows to jail Hillary.
Will the Editorial board of the New York Times be in the next cell?
Trump threatened to jail Clinton if elected. These countries might do the same.
By Joshua Berlinger, CNN
Updated 1:46 AM ET, Mon October 10, 2016
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Source: CNN
(CNN)Donald Trump quipped during Sunday night's debate that if he were president, Hillary Clinton would be in jail.
The comment caught many Americans off-guard. And it sounded disappointingly familiar to those living under authoritarian regimes.
To start, here's what Trump said: "I hate to say it, but if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation (Hillary Clinton's email scandal)."
When Clinton responded by saying it's good that someone with Trump's temperament isn't in charge, he interjected, "because you'd be in jail."
So why did the comment elicit such passionate responses from both Republicans and Democrats?
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: They Are All The Same
Plays well to the base, but looks like to others what happens in third world banana republics ! 
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I'm wondering how long I would stay out of prison under a Trump Regime.
Oh well, I hope that I get to share a cell with Brooks, Krugman, and McCain.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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And now this:
October 10, 2016 New York Daily News
Kellyanne Conway says Trump’s threat to put Clinton in jail was just a ‘Quip"
Once again, the straight-talker who says what he means, needs his handlers to explain how he did not mean what he said.
Last edited by Goose (10/11/2016 7:31 am)
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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