Trump mocks Al Franken over resignation: He folded 'like a wet rag'

[Snake Plissken]

Trump tells his audience that politicians should be lying lowlifes with no integrity, and they rise to their feet and begin cheering.

It's like One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, when Jack Nicholson has everyone cheering at a baseball game on TV that is not turned on. They have no idea why they're even cheering, they just do it like Pavlov's Dog

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/410028-trump-mocks-al-franken-over-resignation-he-folded-like-a-wet-rag

[Freethinker65]

1. They obviously do not appreciate someone that puts the country first

They want their team to win regardless of the means to get there. Lying, cheating, stealing, pillaging is just fine as long as the other side loses. They have pretty much said they are okay with rape, can murder be far behind? Truly scary.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Please Al..run again asap

[BlueTsunami2018]

3. Hard to disagree with that assessment.

Not just Al but the entire party folded on that one. We lost one of our best for no reason at all. Taking the so-called high road does nothing for us, we look like fools and weaklings. They’re just better at the game, way better. They don’t give a fuck about norms, standards or rules. They play the hardest of ball to win with no holds barred.

And that’s why they control everything.

[Trumpocalypse]

11. Yet what credibility would Dems have now on Kavanaugh

if they had given Franken a pass. Granted as allegations against Franken were BS and even if true pale in comparison. But Republicans would use it attack Dems as hypocrites.

[BlueTsunami2018]

13. So what? Who are bigger hypocrites than the Republicans?

The difference is, they don’t care how it looks. Just reverse the roles. They were all calling for Franken to resign over his nonsensical allegations but they’re sticking by their guy here.

They play to win.

[Trumpocalypse]

18. So you think Dems should act more like Republicans?

Wouldn’t that make them just as bad as Republicans?

[mythology]

15. 8 separate women came foward, 4 of them named

Al Franken apologized for mistreating women. I'm not sure how that qualifies as folding. It's taking responsibility for his actions. And it has helped fuel the rising gender gap that has put us substantially ahead in polling for the very gerrymandered House, has the Senate as a possibility with seats up for election that should make that impossible. You may have noticed that we've got a record number of women candidates, that we're running candidates everywhere and raising money in record breaking fashion.

And if "they control everything" remind me why the ACA still stands, same sex marriage, the first two versions of the Muslim ban, why they were forced to change course on that whole family separation thing? Why did Scott Pruitt and Tom Price have to resign in disgrace? Why are they having to scramble so desperately to get Kavanaugh confirmed?

Sorry, the evidence is clear they don't control everything.

[BlueTsunami2018]

16. He was ratfucked and our guys fell for it.

And talk to me after this scumbag is confirmed and rules on those cases that will inevitably come up before the court. You know every single one of them will. And RvW? Bye. Voter rights? Bye. Worker rights? Bye. Anything that might indict Тяцмр and his treasonous cohorts? Good luck.

Having all three branches of the government means you control everything. And they have that control because they’ll do whatever it takes to win, they treat it like a life and death fight while we concern ourselves with decorum and honor.

Replace Franken with any GOP Senator in that situation, what do you think they would have done? I guarantee you they’d still be sitting there today ranting and raving about nonsensical conspiracy theories and defending Kavanaugh. They would have fought tooth and nail, especially when the main evidence was an obvious joke picture. And they would have had the full backing of the party.

Diapers Vitter got a standing ovation from them after being caught calling hookers from the Senate floor.

Pruitt and Price only left because Тяцмр got sick of them, not because he thought they did anything wrong.

I disagree with you.

[backtoblue]

4. I expected the onion....I should have known better....

[elser1939]

5. Hey Trump: Al Franken's catching Jeff Session Lying and his subsquent recusal

may well prove to be your undoing as president and as a traitor. Karma is real!

[Turbineguy]

6. Trump may very well live to eat those words.

Luckily, DU has a great institutional memory.

[Joe941]

7. Al was railroaded. This makes me so mad.

[a kennedy]

8. HOW MUCH LOUDER CAN I YELL THIS.......I ABSOLUTELY DESPISE tRump....

DESPISE, DESPISE, DESPISE, DESPISE, DESPISE, DESPISE, DESPISE, DESPISE, DESPISE, DESPISE HIM.

[smirkymonkey]

17. Ditto!

[IluvPitties]

9. I hope Al runs again.

[sfwriter]

14. yup!

[keithbvadu2]

10. Like Donald folded on the Trump University settlement?

[Snake Plissken]

12. That's the thing with dickheads like Trump

They never take responsibility for their own actions