Scarborough Shames Trump Rally Crowd For Cheering Attacks on McCain, Bush Sr: 'The 6,500 Meanest...

[DonViejo]

Scarborough Shames Trump Rally Crowd For Cheering Attacks on McCain, Bush Sr: ‘The 6,500 Meanest People’

by Aidan McLaughlin | 7:46 am, July 6th, 2018

Morning Joe took on President Donald Trump‘s 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,” MSNBC’s Willie Geist said, “is him going after John McCain who’s dying of cancer, again, and George H.W. Bush who just lost his wife and is suffering from Parkinson’s disease.”

During Trump’s rally in Montana, he mocked Bush’s “thousand points of light” quote, and bashing McCain for his vote against Obamacare repeal.

“It’s painful to watch,” GOP political strategist Susan Del Percio said. “This is the President of the United States going after people for a punchline. That’s 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]

1. trump is a heinous little man.. it makes him

feel like a big man to kick others who are down.

And, he has fucking to cheer him on.

[Achilleaze]

2. republicans trashing America's veterans always pisses me off

why do republicans piss on America's veterans?

Disgusting. Is this what the frigging kremlin wants?

[bullwinkle428]

4. I get absolutely enraged when I see the "Veterans for Trump"

bumper stickers on someone's vehicle.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU??"

[in2herbs]

5. When I get calls asking to donate to veteran's organizations I always refuse, not because I

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]

16. yep, 2/3rds voted for tRump nt

[olegramps]

37. As a vet I understand your fustration, but I still support efforts of VFW to help vets.

[Achilleaze]

9. Fake Bumper Stickers (R)

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]

18. Are there really STILL "Veterans for Trump?"

[GusBob]

3. Its about time they start blaming the assholes in the crowd

Eac of Trumps crowd's is full of hateful assholes. Mean and vindictive, uneducated, worthless, trash.

28% of America loves the hateful rhetoric

[dalton99a]

6. People who attend these hate rallies should be identified

[get the red out]

55. I agree with you

[olegramps]

46. That is what is the scariest part of this fiasco.

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]

7. Fat ass needs to be careful

He doesn't look healthy at all.

[CrispyQ]

10. Maybe we'll get lucky today.

[roamer65]

21. I hope he eats one KFC drumstick too many.

[GoCubsGo]

57. It's time to convince him that KFC and MCDonald's is even better drenched in melted butter.

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]

8. A clip I saw showed Trump's bashing of 1000 points of light

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 have spoken of a Thousand Points of Light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good. We will work hand in hand, encouraging, sometimes leading, sometimes being led, rewarding. We will work on this in the White House, in the Cabinet agencies. I will go to the people and the programs that are the brighter points of light, and I'll ask every member of my government to become involved. The old ideas are new again because they're not old, they are timeless: duty, sacrifice, commitment, and a patriotism that finds its expression in taking part and pitching in. ~ GHW Bush inaugural address

“And by the way, you know all the rhetoric you see, thousand points of light. What the hell was that, by the way? Thousand points of light. What did that mean? Does anyone know?

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]

12. He is a moron. Period.

[bdamomma]

25. a dangerous moron

to boot.

[Blue_Adept]

14. I saw it more as the audience not having a clue about what he was talking about

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]

35. THIS - the initial reply was giving the zombie too much credit

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. Ignorance and senility rule

[PatSeg]

22. The man does not discriminate

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]

47. :) Trump's ideology is Me: by me, of me, for me.

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]

61. And the irony is

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]

26. He tries out routines and punchlines to see what works. Always has. Bet this one gets dropped...

...fairly shortly, unless he finds an audience that mindlessly cheers for it, in which case it will get incorporated into his rally rants.

[LiberalArkie]

40. Trump can not understand "Thousand Points of Light" meaning people going out to help others

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.

[Adrahil]

13. Hillary called them "Deplorables" for a reason. NT

[True Blue American]

15. Joe also said they herded people together

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]

19. Yep! I've been noticing lately that the crowd behind Trump...

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]

27. One trick pony

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.

[PatSeg]

28. Yes

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]

20. These rallies are very familiar. Same idiots, too.

[bdamomma]

23. this jerk is going to

get a lot of people killed, he is spewing hate every day.

scary he really needs to be locked up quickly.

[Paladin]

24. Hang it in your ear, Joe Scarborough.

You and your show did your part to make such lunatic rallies possible. Thanks for nothing. Take your present-day regrets and shove them.

[Cosmocat]

36. Yep

Not sure how he somehow is viewed as anything other than the POS he is ...

[Liberalhammer]

29. It's a tell

Of purging from within.

It's either support Trump 100% or you will get purged.

File under totalitarianism

[lapfog_1]

30. Should George H. W. Bush pass away while the Orange Turd is in "office"

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]

31. trump is one of the few people who have

no redeeming value whatsoever...just IMHO

[SpankMe]

32. Double standard very much?

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.

[rtracey]

33. well

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]

49. Except she was being overly generous and diplomatic.

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]

34. Those people I'm willing to bet are every bit as insane as Trump

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]

62. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of attendees

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]

38. Dunning-Kruger 101

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.

[marieo1]

43. minngal

All DJT has is one big mouth which he should learn to keep shut!!

[yonder]

60. D-K for sure. His lack of ability to realize his lack of ability

is inversely proportionate to his chest-thumping, blowhardy arrogance.

[tclambert]

39. But the rallies make Trump feel good.

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]

41. Trump's day to suffer will come -

and I will celebrate it. Bigly.

[marieo1]

42. minngal

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]

44. Cheap theatrics, just for the show.

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]

45. A hate rally...

these fools are full of hate and are in a trance with the Dictator Cult Leader

[StevieM]

48. But apparently it's just fine when he calls for the imprisonment of his political opponent. (eom)

[Midnightwalk]

50. Symptom or Disease

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]

51. awww you can say it Joe,,, you mean 6,500 deplorables.

[Bayard]

52. Why is he still holding "rallies"?

They serve no presidential purpose. And only appeal to a small % of the population.

[EffieBlack]

53. To me, one of the weirdest things about these rallies is the way he struts in soaking up applause

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]

54. What can you expect?

A bunch of mean-spirited, angry clems "elect" a giant POS....you gotta expect it to stink up the place.

[trueblue2007]

56. i have said it over and over ... TRUMP IS EVIL, Anti-Christ type evil.

[DetlefK]

58. I can't wait for Republicans to attack the next D POTUS for not behaving "presidential."

[Achilleaze]

59. Dirty Donny* IS the republican family-values role model

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief