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Old 09-20-2016, 12:30 AM
 
Location: TUS/PDX
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It would appear Mars Candy are one of the few that come out looking good on this

Donald Trump Jr. likens Syrian refugees to Skittles - CNNPolitics.com
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Old 09-20-2016, 02:37 AM
 
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It would appear Mars Candy are one of the few that come out looking good on this

Donald Trump Jr. likens Syrian refugees to Skittles - CNNPolitics.com

It looks like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree....
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Old 09-20-2016, 02:51 AM
 
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It looks like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree....
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you just cant stand the fact that he is right!!
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Old 09-20-2016, 03:08 AM
 
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you just cant stand the fact that he is right!!
The skittles thing is so numerically off, only the unthinking and the gullible would think he is right.

The smart people (mostly liberals) knows that the ratio used in the skittles example is not remotely close to reality.

If he really wants to get the metaphor right, it'd be a bucket full of sand and one of the sand is......


Fast forward to 3:00.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U-t3GetV_Q
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Old 09-20-2016, 03:11 AM
 
Location: Maine
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What's the problem? Makes perfect sense to me.


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Old 09-20-2016, 04:00 AM
 
Location: Staten Island, NY
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Jr. made a dumbed down statement to get his point across. The NY Daily news headline desperately tries to connect the headline as racist by referring to Trayvon Martin. It's laughable how full of hate the NYDN has towards the Trump family and how desperate the Democrats are becoming. They will do anything to attempt to slander the Donald and his family. Trump Jr. could have used a better analogy but, I understand why he tweeted what he did.
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Old 09-20-2016, 04:16 AM
 
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Jr. made a dumbed down statement to get his point across. The NY Daily news headline desperately tries to connect the headline as racist by referring to Trayvon Martin. It's laughable how full of hate the NYDN has towards the Trump family and how desperate the Democrats are becoming. They will do anything to attempt to slander the Donald and his family. Trump Jr. could have used a better analogy but, I understand why he tweeted what he did.
Hey, I'm looking at the tweet. It compares humans who are in a desperate refugee situation to a bowl of skittles. So... who looks 'dumbed down', to say the least, with that disgusting tweet? It isn't the media.

The media isn't slandering junior, the media is reporting his tweet and resulting comment by the skittles manufacturer. Once someone puts something on twitter, it is out there for the world to see and the media to report on. It is not 'slander' when reporting on something that the world can see is true.
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Old 09-20-2016, 06:48 AM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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Jr. made a dumbed down statement to get his point across. The NY Daily news headline desperately tries to connect the headline as racist by referring to Trayvon Martin. It's laughable how full of hate the NYDN has towards the Trump family and how desperate the Democrats are becoming. They will do anything to attempt to slander the Donald and his family. Trump Jr. could have used a better analogy but, I understand why he tweeted what he did.


Or, he could have followed Abe Lincoln's sage advice: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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Old 09-20-2016, 06:50 AM
 
Location: North of Canada, but not the Arctic
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Apparently liberals don't understand analogies. And no doubt they would grab a handful of poisoned skittles. Which proves Jr.'s point.
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Old 09-20-2016, 06:57 AM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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It would appear Mars Candy are one of the few that come out looking good on this

Donald Trump Jr. likens Syrian refugees to Skittles - CNNPolitics.com
The candy company should be able to sue. An insult to Skittles.

Besides his ratio is not even close. How many Skittles in a large bowl? 1000? Far more than 3 in 1000 Islamists are radicalized or supporters of Muhammad.
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