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Scarborough Shames Trump Rally Crowd For Cheering Attacks on McCain, Bush Sr: The 6,500 Meanest Peopleby Aidan McLaughlin | 7:46 am, July 6th, 2018
Morning Joe took on President Donald Trumps Thursday night rally in which he attacked Sen. John McCain and former President George H.W. Bush holding his crowd accountable for encouraging the display.
To me the worst part of last night, MSNBCs Willie Geist said, is him going after John McCain whos dying of cancer, again, and George H.W. Bush who just lost his wife and is suffering from Parkinsons disease.
During Trumps rally in Montana, he mocked Bushs thousand points of light quote, and bashing McCain for his vote against Obamacare repeal.
Its painful to watch, GOP political strategist Susan Del Percio said. This is the President of the United States going after people for a punchline. Thats disgraceful. We should expect more, and just to add on that, he also attacked the press exactly days after five people lost their lives in a shooting.
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Cha
(295,929 posts)feel like a big man to kick others who are down.
And, he has fucking to cheer him on.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)why do republicans piss on America's veterans?
Disgusting. Is this what the frigging kremlin wants?
bullwinkle428
(20,627 posts)bumper stickers on someone's vehicle.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU??"
in2herbs
(2,942 posts)don't support our vets, but until they stop voting against their own interest -- which means voting Republican -- I won't donate a dime.
elmac
(4,642 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)the kremlin probably printed up those bumper stickers and send them off to kgop republiCONS.
No Veteran with honor wants to salute a freaking five-time republican draft-dodger with dubious bootlicking ties to a nation MAKING WAR AGAINST THE USA.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Eac of Trumps crowd's is full of hateful assholes. Mean and vindictive, uneducated, worthless, trash.
28% of America loves the hateful rhetoric
dalton99a
(81,076 posts)get the red out
(13,459 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)I totally agree with those who put a major share of the blame on the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in broadcasting and the opening up the broadcast market to multiple ownership that resulted in wholesale purchase of mom & pop stations. A major portion of our citizens have dined on a feast of vicious propaganda for the last forty years. They have been convinced that they alone are real Americans and protectors of American values and that the Liberals are un-American, immoral hedonists who must be crushed.
Reason with these people? Sorry but everyone who dared to confronted these zombies soon realize it is a hopeless situation. When and how it will end is beyound my pay grade.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)He doesn't look healthy at all.
CrispyQ
(36,231 posts)roamer65
(36,739 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)Set out bowls of it so he can dunk his food in it. Even better with a hot fudge chaser. Let him take himself out.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)met with relative silence from a crowd eager to scream their support. He ran on about it some more, trying to get a better reaction, and then he trailed off with what seemed like a delayed realization that he was bashing a Republican president.
Almost certainly never clued in that he was also bashing a high-minded call for the kind of public service that conservatives pride themselves on. For once he was being honest: he doesn't get it.
I know one thing. Make america great again we understand. Putting America first we understand. Thousand points of light? I never quite got that one. What the hell is that? Has anyone ever figured that one out? ... Ayy! It was put out by a Republican, wasn't it? ~ Trump
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)bdamomma
(63,658 posts)to boot.
Blue_Adept
(6,384 posts)Bush Sr doesn't get brought up often and in recent memory just in context to health issues. These fools don't remember the politics of last year, never mind nearly thirty years ago.
Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)This guy brings out the absolute worst elements of the human spirit in anyone who is vulnerable to brain fornicating.
If they were in that room, they are as lost as he is now.
True Blue American
(17,972 posts)PatSeg
(46,804 posts)in the sense that he bashes anyone and everyone, regardless of political affiliation. For a man who personally values loyalty so much, he rarely gives it and then it is very conditional and short lived.
It would seem that at this rate, he would eventually run out of supporters, as no one is immune to his cruel assaults.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I really don't think he's capable of feeling anything else, no matter how he pretends. We saw that in this stupid lapse. "I don't get it." Whoops!
But to the comments from others, conservatives have their illusions and that they are the good people, America's moral compass and core, is a huge one. Their tribalism actually does encourage public service, local service to people like them certainly, but they're behind lots of caring, charitable works.
That 1000 points of light speech may be seldom hit, but it is one of the few national events conservatives can point to that affirms their self image, just as they cling to the very mistaken notion that Lincoln was one of them. It would be strange if this were forgotten, although I agree some younger ones may not know any more about what the thousand points of light were supposed to mean than they do about who Lincoln really was.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)at his core, he doesn't particularly like himself. Only insecure people go around bragging about how great they are. And then there is the constant need for external validation, which he seeks from his rallies.
As for the younger conservatives, so many of them are so poorly educated, they have no real grasp of history, politics, or world events. Sadly, many may be learning from Donald Trump what they missed in school.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)...fairly shortly, unless he finds an audience that mindlessly cheers for it, in which case it will get incorporated into his rally rants.
LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)because the concept of helping others for the sake of helping others without profit is totally foreign to him. Why should anyone do anything without profit.
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Adrahil
(13,340 posts)True Blue American
(17,972 posts)And put curtains around to make his crowd appear larger.
They did little applauding in the crowd behind him. One time they did.
But his attacks on the same people all the time remind me of an Old Time Vaudevillian who has lost his spark, needs to retire.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)has been looking more and more blank-faced, and sometimes mainly perplexed. There is absolutely NO REASON for him to be attacking the Republican elders; and in a personal, rather than political way. We can now tell how clueless, cruel and ignorant his followers are. Talk about losers! I' m with the growing number of people who are now more scared of the mentality of his followers, than in the orange moron himself. It's worse than the (pod people) body snatchers' invasion.
True Blue American
(17,972 posts)Trump has run out of tricks.
I just read a Judy Woodruff tweet that a small child was returned to his Mother covered with lice,had not been bathed. That is sickening.
Trump is just that obnoxious braggart at the end of the bar that most people try to avoid, but his followers are terrifying. Whenever Trump is speaking at a rally, I tend to watch the people behind him rather than focus on him. I try to imagine what on earth is going on through their minds as they laugh and cheer at the most appalling crap. Its not like they are mesmerized by his extraordinary charm and charisma or his remarkable oratory skills. It is like some kind of mass insanity.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)bdamomma
(63,658 posts)get a lot of people killed, he is spewing hate every day.
scary he really needs to be locked up quickly.
Paladin
(28,204 posts)You and your show did your part to make such lunatic rallies possible. Thanks for nothing. Take your present-day regrets and shove them.
Not sure how he somehow is viewed as anything other than the POS he is ...
Liberalhammer
(576 posts)Of purging from within.
It's either support Trump 100% or you will get purged.
File under totalitarianism
lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)I bet the Bush family will tell him to NOT attend...
And ALL of the other Presidents will be there... and one Bill Clinton will give the eulogy (unless George W. Bush does it).
And Barack and Michelle Obama will be in the front row with W and Laura, right next to Hillary.
gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)no redeeming value whatsoever...just IMHO
SpankMe
(2,937 posts)When Obama wanted to speak directly to adversaries to start dialogues, conservatives lambasted him as an apologist and and appeaser.
I guess appeasement is in the eye of the beholder.
Hillary was correct, these are deplorable shitstains.... Democrats are NOT going to sway these cretins to vote for the left, so Democrats need to keep their base, and work on the right leaning independent voters, also push the disenfranchised voters who voted green party and libertarian in 16.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)That Trump was actually taken seriously as a candidate for POTUS is proof enough of just how sick this society is. We have a pandemic of racism and sexism but it's not one the CDC is warning about.
TNLib
(1,819 posts)There should be a paddy wagon, with men in white suits waiting with strait jackets, outside those rallies to carry those people off to the insane assylum.
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)don't care one way or the other about Trump, but come for the clown show he puts on. It's like 2 stupid groups of kids egging each other on.
Zambero
(8,954 posts)He lacks the ability to realize that he has no ability. Finesse, class, nuance, and indeed self-control are completely out of the question. His wildly cheering followers also lack the ability to see their bad actor for what he is. Birds of a feather, and an ongoing case study that will provide social scientists and mental health researchers with a wealth of material.
All DJT has is one big mouth which he should learn to keep shut!!
yonder
(9,631 posts)is inversely proportionate to his chest-thumping, blowhardy arrogance.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)So his staffers will keep scheduling them. 'Cause they don't want a grumpy Trump, do they? Grumpy Trump might start a war just to show people he's tough. Not that he'd go fight the war himself. Ow, those bone spurs!
TheCowsCameHome
(40,163 posts)and I will celebrate it. Bigly.
marieo1
(1,402 posts)He has no decency about anything or anyone. He is one disgusting piece of humankind!!! I will never understand how anyone decent can support him!!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)I'm convinced these rallies are held at our expense to 1.) provide right-wing media with free footage as fodder for the base, 2.) to further distract the public from what really counts, and 3.) pump tRump's ego.
These things are highly orchestrated and just note where they're always held - out in the hinterlands where country folks will come out of the woodwork for a night of cheap entertainment, and I've heard they're offered bus rides into town.
And, the Koolaid is served free at the door......
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)these fools are full of hate and are in a trance with the Dictator Cult Leader
StevieM
(10,499 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Trump is uniquely despicable, racist, and corrupt, but he or someone like him is the conclusion of a decades long trend of republican politics.
Republicans have been questioning settled science such as evolution, climate change, CFCs, and even whether cigarettes cause cancer for decades. Their propaganda outlets such as Fox and talk radio lie about objective facts even when there is video. Why should anyone be surprised that their president and spokesmen lie? That line was crossed a long time ago.
Demonization of political opponents was the center of Newt Gingrich's philosophy, but has been a staple of the republican leaders, and their media outlets have called democrats unpatriotic, traitors, weak on crime and terrorism and etc, for decades. Why are they surprised when their leader does the same to any critic even in their party?
The southern strategy, fear of "urban people", Muslims, "Mexicans", "free loaders", have always been a play to racists. Where have the Republican voices been over the decades decrying the racist rhetoric? Why are they now surprised that neo-nazis are running as Republicans openly. Why the surprise that their president is a racist and has racists as his advisers?
I could go on.
On one hand I appreciate when Republicans recognize and tell the truth about who Trump is. But until there is an honest discussion and recognition of how we got here the cancer can't be excised. Pundits like Steve Schmidt (the guy who gave us Sarah Palin) who say that Republicans have become the party or Trump have it wrong. Trump is just the current symptom of the disease.
JHan
(10,173 posts)Bayard
(21,806 posts)They serve no presidential purpose. And only appeal to a small % of the population.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)standing there nodding and bowing and the claps back at the audience like a child.
Just watching that with the sound off is bone chilling.
He's insane.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)A bunch of mean-spirited, angry clems "elect" a giant POS....you gotta expect it to stink up the place.