Sheriff's badges have little balls on the star points

[jmowreader]

Google "picture of a sheriff's badge" and you'll find two kinds: stars and shields. A star-shaped badge almost always has a ball at the end of each point of the star; whether it's just "tradition" or a way to keep the criminal element from stabbing the officer with his badge I'm not sure, but with very few exceptions they all have it.

The thing Trump put on Hillary's picture has no balls on the star points. It therefore cannot be a sheriff's badge.

[Mendocino]

1. The ones that don't have the ball,

while not common, are almost always 7 point.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. But I think Trump himself probably does have little balls.

[jmowreader]

3. He has little hands, so it's possible

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. gee. ain't that some coincidence.

Citizens, submit! This is your final warning! We have many little balls on our Author-O-Tee Symbols!

[fleabiscuit]

5. Except dumps star, it has little tiny hands on the points. nt

[3catwoman3]

6. Actually, it is the Republican...

...establishment that has little balls. Not many with the cojones to have called Trump out on his BS until it was too late.

[HDSam]

7. There are

Several examples of six pointed sheriffs badges without balls easily found on Google images. Taos, New Mexico and San Francisco were two I found with no difficulty.

This isn't to say Trump's explanation holds even a tiny bit of water ( I personally think he's an idiot) but concluding that because it had no balls it cannot be a badge is demonstrably false.

[Turborama]

8. Here's one...

[HDSam]

9. That's seven points (nt)

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Count the points on that one.

See the post above. 6-points have balls. 7-pointers have none. Your image is a seven pointer.

[Turborama]

12. And another (yes, I know how many points there are. That's ,my 'point')

[Monk06]

11. If it is composed of two iscoceles triangles inverted and superimposed then it is the Star of David

Donnie boy Or didn't your dad Herr Drump point that out to you in that town your were born in where all those jews live?

[Warren DeMontague]

13. Trump is saving campaign money by letting Neo-Nazis do photoshops for his campaign, for free.

That's the real issue, here.

Endlessly debating about what the shape inherently means or doesn't mean solely on the basis of the shape, is kind of beside the point (so to speak).

Every six pointed star is not necessarily there to convey the impression of a star of david; but the image in question came directly from some horrible white supremacist/anti-Semitic twitter feed, that's the bottom line.

[Heeeeers Johnny]

14. Next he'll be saying it was a ninja throwing star.

[malaise]

15. All lies all the time

He's playing to his base

[rug]

16. Goes along with the little hands.

[HereSince1628]

17. LE badges may, but cheap graphics programs don't

I sort of think that graphic was produced on something cheap, and not too graphically sophisticated, maybe powerpoint, which has limited graphic shapes.

That doesn't make it impossible that Trump's generally xenophobic tone turned anti-semetic.

[DustyJoe]

18. not always

I wore one for a time early 80's