SPLUTTER!
The February issue of Village magazine – on shelves from today – complete with a simple, if frankly gasp-inducing, visual aid for potential Donald Trump assassins.
Via Village:
Donald Trump is a purveyor of hatred, a contrarian anti-liberal, anti-democratic and hostile to a free press, anti-environmental corruptible bully; a liar, misogynist groper and a boor. He developed the political platform you would expect on the back of this persona….
….He holds the reins of power in the most powerful country in the world. He holds the nuclear codes, he can start wars, he can ensure nothing is done about climate change, so that civilisation itself is threatened.
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He cant start wars , he needs congress approval
I’d say he could be instrumental in getting war declared upon the States though…
yep
Does not.
Bushtard had no problem getting it to invade Iraq.
What on earth where they thinking with this? Oh yeah, clicks and page hits. Ah, but it’s ok really because right at the end they have a sentence saying, “nah don’t kill him”. Like we really needed the Village to tell us that. Horrible, horrible, irresponsible clickbait and I feel dirty for giving them the hit to read it.
Jesus, do we even need to discuss the wrong or rights? Has there been some public chatter wondering about the ethics of advocating for the assassination of the President that I have missed?
Enjoy the clicks and the ad revenue. Oh, FYI:
http://gawker.com/5728545/shot-congresswoman-was-in-sarah-palins-crosshairs
Idiots.
So angry and self righteous all the time.
It must be so wearying attempting to moderate the entire content of the Internet , news magazines and periodicals and handing out all those virtual slaps on the wrist. You’re some man for one man.
You’re cute, I’m flattered and even a little tempted. Negging really does seem to work. But I’m taken and I have to walk the line.
Sorry to Friend-Zone you. Can i keep your details in case things don’t work out though?
Haha look me up on Grindr
I don’t do quickies
Thought you were talking about Village there for a minute…
VERY WELL SAID!
The lack of a question mark annoys me.
Does it
I like you
Was that a question
Why not? Because Mike Pence that’s why not.
Pence would only set the US back a few years. They can put that right with the next Presidential election. There’ll be nothing left to set right if Trump gets four years. The world is a Trump fart away from WW3.
That target misses his brain by at least 3 feet.
Cynical attempt by Village to get mainstream media coverage. Will be seen as just another reason to ignore.
i dont like the man but bs shouldnt be giving publicity to this. Yes hes a loathsome individual. Would Bs publish the same magazine cover with a photo of Obama or Hillary?
Yes
No, cos it’s not politically correct to suggest shooting of blacks or gays
Hillary is black?(!!!)
They might if it was on the cover of a national magazine, and controversial? This is remarkably ill-judged, though, and would be even if opposition to and criticism of Trump wasn’t being scrutinised for excesses to be used as propaganda.
Why is it ill-judged? What are the actual realistic consequences apart from getting some people offended?
Ammunition for Trump supporters to dismiss ant-Trump people as violent extremists? Also, it’s asinine, scraping the bottom of the barrel for an eye-catching hot take.
Trump supporters use EVERYTHING as ammunition for that. Right wingers have been oppressed by lefty elites for at least 8 years now. These are not honest, rational people you are talking about. Everything is confirmation bias to them. A magazine cover, especially one in Ireland ffs, is not going to make that problem any worse.
As for the second thing, that’s just your personal preference. Which is fine. If they want to get noticed though (have you ever met anyone who actually reads Village?) then this is the way to go. I don’t know if you have any interest in Conor McGregor but this line reminds of things his competitors say when complaining about him. He’s the only household name in that sport. You see his peers, who are relative nobodies, talking about taking pride in working their way up and “earning” their shot and fighting “whoever the UFC says next”. They want to be respectable sportsmen. That’s grand, but nobody cares. Conor McGregor demanded people’s attention and got himself two titles in under 3 years. If people are talking about this magazine cover, Village have done the right thing.
You’re certainly right about the supporters. They make so much up, they hardly need real ammunition.
Conor Mcgregor play fights.Ali pulled the clever punches.
Excellent. I wouldn’t have known to be outraged at this without your timely reminder Nigel
Next question: how outraged should I be on a scale from vegetarian to full vegan?
You should be chopping sand into neat lines and snortng them up through a rolled-up piece of kale.
Haha very good Nigel
Let’s be friends
…careful now Village…be careful what you wish for…if Bodger can single-handedly bring down crooked Hillary…then you’ve just spawned a self-fulfilling prophesy…
And they become that which they profess to hate
Everybody’s doing it why can’t we
Well said !
Become what? Drama llamas?
Over a picture.
Righties are weird.
Try reading the article. Because it’s kind off the opposite.
They’ve now become Trumplike themselves.
Yes, cynical businessmen apparently.
I reaaaaally expected more of de media.
Incredibly bad taste from Village.
Incredibly bad attempt to get attention. Village is perpetually ignored by IT/RTE/Indo etc, so this is them throwing an editorial tantrum in a bid to provoke reaction.
Which mightn’t be such a dumb strategy if the content wasn’t so average. More insightful and articulate editorial analyses have been made elsewhere, many times over, without resorting to toddler mode.
It’s a bleedin’ magazine cover. Man, liberals do my nut sometimes. I bet some of you complained about Richard Spencer getting punched as well. Donald Trump is ticking every box for authoritarian fascist dictator. Every one. He’s threatening war with Mexico, Irand and China. And people are whining that someone put crosshairs on his head on a magazine cover? Please.
The Left cant handle defeat. They cant accept the idea that their own message is being rejected,
A lorra folk go one better with the impeachment prediction and declare that Trump will be assassinated within a year…..then they watch you carefully to see if, or perhaps hope you’ll respond with ‘I hope so’.
Bet you don’t disappoint Madam Wordsword
Pathetic cover.
Is the Village ran by children?
the sumbag right would just martyr him
DAV. Your an intellectual Colossus.
Pretty pathetic cover, possibly enough that any senior staff in The Village will be refused entry to the US for life. Or even more interestingly they may be let in so they can be arrested for what is considered a very serious crime in the US. I don’t think they have thought this one through.
No, not at all.
Other people have been dealing with this for a long time:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2010/08/in_the_line_of_ire.html
(Thanks jusayinlike, great site)
Your welcome deluded
They’re probably white. They’ll probably be fine.
You seemed to have missed the point. It is not “Why Not?”. It is “Why NOT”. (Emphasis added for the contextually challenged)
I live here it makes things hard for Irish people who left for work and not funny when you see som one saying they don’t like us have you seen this and that person hands back iris butter saying what did we ever do to them ,, no thanks maby we don’t need to be supporting them ,,, Ireland brought in blasphemy laws they would dare offend a Muslim or put a pic or endogn or putin ,, it makes us look hipocritical and they would all be crying if a British mag had a pic of our president ,,,they should be banned the Irish here don’t need there help
Looks like you might need a few literacy courses
Lizard people’s brains aren’t in their head they are in the crotch.
What did they expect to achieve by this? It is so needy and trashy. They will get some attention from a few right wing nutters on social media and when that all dies down ( give it until Monday) they will be left with a magazine that is more concerned with promoting itself than than any socialist agenda. very stupid and very ill advised . Cringe. cringe
It’s hurting Ireland when customers are upset enough to hand back produce ,, there’s never been ill will now we are headlines thank stupid mag for making like a little harder for immigrants to the USA ,,, wonder if they have the balls to offend other groups
Yea how dare an insignificant little leftist rag have an opinion contrary to that of official Ireland! Those Marxist dole collecting scroungers spread shame on the whole country. And i bet that they haven’t a willy whatsit between them! Wimmin the whole lot of them!
Disgusting, obv.
Also stupid. Shooting Trump would get you Pence.
Kind of distasteful (quite like village, though it can be a bit waffley), if trump were an actual Hitler that would be another thing, but he isn’t, people tore shreds into Sarah Palin when she did a similar schtik with gun sights.
Hitler wasn’t Hitler at this point in his regime either. Trump has hit every note on the fascist indicator list already.
Can we get a target on a few writers and publisher responsible for this?
Why not
Fatwa envy.
You violated several laws and have been reported to the authorities. People will go to jail for this and the fines will be big enough to shut you down. Let’s hope Trump’s lawyers will go after you personally.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2010/08/in_the_line_of_ire.html
^_^
silly me, carry on!
You b*stard! You are really going to upset “Muslimslovr
Tokill” now. And such a reasonable fellow and all.
Ahem eh seriously moderators? Muslimslovetokill?
Have you no editorial standards whatsoever?
Are they in trouble
Anyone?
This is just Sale Special type carry-on
Like a leather sofa for a yoyo
Hostile to a free press? As in free to make up shite as they go to push their own agenda? I’d be hostile too if I had CNN making up bullshit stories every waking day. The people who should be most hostile are the viewers for being duped.
where’s the real birth certificate, eh mr. asinine.