Posted on 12/16/2016 4:58:28 PM PST by Kaslin
Conspiracy theorist Paul Krugman speculated on Twitter Friday that President-elect Trump has an incentive to allow a major terror attack in the United States:
Thought: There was (rightly) a cloud of illegitimacy over Bush, dispelled (wrongly) by 9/11. Creates some interesting incentives for Trump
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 16, 2016
It’s not hard to unpack this. Bush was elected in 2000 by the narrowest of margins. Less than a year later we had the worst terror attack on U.S. soil in our history. The attack caused the public to rally around President Bush. So, if President-elect Trump wanted a similar boon to his public support he might feel some incentive to follow a similar path.
How would he do this exactly? Krugman doesn’t say, probably because the whole idea is already verging on the plot of Iron Man 3 or a couple seasons of 24. Like a lot of things Krugman says, this is more about casting shade on the enemy than making any actual connection of facts. For the guy who told the world Sarah Palin was responsible for the Tucson shooting, facts are often an afterthought. The point here is simply to reinforce that Trump is a bad guy who would let terrorists kill Americans (if he could) to help his poll numbers.
Krugman went on to offer a kind of justification for his absurd theory. It’s all about Democrats taking back power through “public outrage.” That outrage should be stoked by questioning the legitimacy of the election:
Why is it useful to emphasize the questionable legitimacy of the election, not "assure a smooth transition"? Several reasons 1/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 16, 2016
Even if Trump can't be stopped, we need any constraints on his actions we can find — and threat of public outrage is really all there is 2/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 16, 2016
Plus anything that enhances future chance of turnaround is essential — which means not forgetting and normalizing the subversion of 2016 3/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 16, 2016
You can't put this back in the box, and trying to do so just makes the horror of the situation worse 4/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 16, 2016
Krugman has been saying for weeks that Trump’s victory was illegitimate. Back in October after Director Comey announced he was looking into additional emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop, Krugman tweeted that Comey was probably trying to swing the election or, at a minimum, help Republicans hold the Senate.
It looks like the Dems took the opposite position and apologized and covered up all of the terrorist behaviors. That allowed you to bring in hundreds of thousands of illegals, murderers, and rapists.
Trump wants that changed.
Guess what? You can't stop these stupid people from going bad (to help Trump's argument). But, then, you were aiming for chaos in the US, anyway. You always wanted the US to suffer extreme pain.
Trump doesn't.
I recall several reports that Hillary was very miffed that 9/11 happened during the Bush administration rather than the Clinton administration, she thought it was very unfair for him to get all the patriotic adulation.
Or he ran out of Preparation H
Yes, it is second act of a show we saw before - I'll give them props for increasing their creativity this time around with their "illegitimacy" narrative - Russian hacking, expanding bogus 'recounting' to 3 states instead of just 1, harrassment of the electors also occurred in 2000 but now we've got it upped to a whole new level.
And there's no "rightly" about it either way - they lost fair and square. They came so close in 2000 with their media trumpeting that the polls were closed in Florida repeatedly over the course an hour while they were in fact still open in the most conservative part of the state and even called the state while the polls WERE STILL OPEN which is know to have dramatically depressed the turnout there and cost Bush tens of thousands of net votes. This time they lost states that had not gone Democrat in a generation. You lost, Krugman - BOTH times.
We used to put lunatics like Krugman in a rubber room.
Krugman’s a weasel.
If the election were held again today Trump would win an even greater landslide. The American public is sick and tired of constant crap coming from the Left.
Krugman is to economics what whiffle ball is to athletics.
The man is despicable.
Krugman is off his meds again.
Deep in these people mental illness runs!
Current administration response right now to terrorism is making us more vulnerable to being murdered with impunity by the enemy. The other response will be to kick their ×%×_×# and making the perpsychological and their buddies suffer. But I am guessing Krug man has a nice ivory tower where he doesn’t ever worry about being harmed by radicals, unlike us little propke.
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