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Dispatches from the Saturday night Trump rally.:large
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a53275/trump-melbourne-florida-rally/
vlyons
(10,252 posts)A powerless man coveting power - power in any form
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)Sebasdad22
(68 posts)Rupert Murdock, Roger Ailes, and Rush Limp.... destroyed our country.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,856 posts)and other high crimes. Maybe they'll come to their senses when he is perp-walked in hand cuffs and shackles crying like the sniveling little baby he really is.
Ezior
(505 posts)...
AllaN01Bear
(18,502 posts)and everything in between. if a d is in the house esp a black one heaven forbid. heil phht in der DRumphfurhers face. the Rs are mainly intrested in protecting 100 rich individuals and corps . essitantlaly their campaign butt buddies.
dalton99a
(81,635 posts)mcar
(42,388 posts)hatrack
(59,593 posts)Pathetic.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I can't believe people like this exist. They will never change.
malaise
(269,202 posts)grab them by the pussy and lots of awful things about other races and women - and you can't believe they exist?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)so shocking to me. I knew they were racist idiots, but I didn't know just HOW racist and stupid they were.
malaise
(269,202 posts)blithering idiots - really really stupid people
bdamomma
(63,930 posts)can I join the conversation? This is why they have Betsy DeVos
as head of education. Even the kids will be dumbed down and it will be easier for the rich to manipulate the poor and uneducated.
It is really sad isn't it?
malaise
(269,202 posts)She is a public embarrassment - Pence owns her appointment
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,625 posts)Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)the people who supported Hitler were nicer.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)There is no salvation for these people.
iluvtennis
(19,880 posts)Kentonio
(4,377 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,445 posts)"Nobody protested Obama"?
That's right up there with Limbaugh recently saying that Obama got everything he wanted. I hope that this alt-history doesn't wind up in a Texas-approved textbook.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)nobody protested Obama... except them of course LOL
dipshits.
librechik
(30,677 posts)they feel better among their own kind. Differentness frightens them.
These people and their leaders are sick sick humans who need help but are too dissociated to ask for it. They will do as much damage as possible on the way down, mostly in their own families and communities.
BumRushDaShow
(129,625 posts)who prance around and primp and preen and obsess and caress their imagined "power" -
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Look at where the gun is pointed.
This is exactly what her vote does to her (and many other's) kids.
BumRushDaShow
(129,625 posts)I remember when I first saw that pic and it was highlighted exactly for that reason. I.e., some things are "props" designed to make one feel "bigger and better and more powerful" - particularly when everything going on around you makes you feel powerless. And those who depend on the use of "enhancements" to appear to be above everyone else (something that Drumpf has perfected throughout his life - i.e., the "image" of "power" are the ones Drumpf played to.
Initech
(100,107 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)God help us if there is another 9/11 scale terrorist attack.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)What will the republican controlled Congress do when Dump declares marshal law and suspends the freedom of press and speech and assembly and protest?
I will confess it's haunting my dreams since Putin stole the election for his puppet spy.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)and we are repeating it.
Shitty thing is, those in power certainly learned what worked for the Nazis and used some of the tactics to their advantage.
So I guess they learned from history and are reaping the rewards. Ugh.
Initech
(100,107 posts)It was all the hate, all the racism, and all the sexism that came out of his supporters. They champion themselves as being anti-PC and are proud of it, while we watch in horror at what their ignorance is capable of. The destruction at Adam Yauch Park. All the swastika graffiti. All the hate crimes. And most recently the vandalism at the Jewish community cemeteries. The people like Milo Yiannopolous, Theodore Shoebat, and Joshua Feurerstein. And unlike the last time a maniacal mad man with a dictatorial complex took over, I don't think there will be anyone to bail us out. They'll most likely let us stir in our own juices.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)We have to be just as firm in our opposition.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,024 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Whatta demented irrational nazi fuckwit. Either that, or it's Milo talking about his 'big daddy'.
They will never stop pushing for civil war. The only thing they stand for is hating all other Americans, and yearning for the moment they can attack their 'enemies'.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)bdamomma
(63,930 posts)I am sure we will be victorious again, but it will be different factions probably liberal over right wing extremists, or nazi lovers. Yes I am hopeful the true patriots will overcome those who have very small minds.
It's something that these supporters are but of a small margin of people who are for all this madness.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)9000 dolts was all he could muster for his big 2020 campaign kick off. That's like a portajohn line at the huge anti-dRumpf events from the last month.
For me, it's important to tone down the anger, be more dispassionate. Because everything dRumpfenfuhrer and his fans do is designed to be trollish, to provoke rage, anxiety, fear, violent irrational feelings. Better to be on an even keel, equitable, instead of violently angry. Better for physical well-being and mental health.
They just need to be plucked off and destroyed, like a tick that hasn't dug in yet. Dispassionately.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Bettie
(16,130 posts)Nope. Not happening. Why bother with them?
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)They have the exact same mentality. Lots of anger, very little factual information, and a deeply held belief that "they", who ever the hell "they" are, is the reason their lives are miserable.
SledDriver
(2,059 posts)exactly
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,116 posts)They must be opposed at every step of the way. Because, at the end of the day, that is what we are talking about. Authoritarian fascists. They would gladly put the Declaration of Independence and the constitution in a shredder and make Trump king if they thought they could get away with it. As long as "those people" were put in there place.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)You can't negotiate with fascists. They'd gladly do whatever they can to run amok (and have done so far what they can get away with)
heaven05
(18,124 posts)of the two wannabe dictators, prezidents bannon and miller would be given this type of power by these type of people who accused and feared President Barack Hussein Obama of wanting to do this...what's the simple explanation...a white male KKKristian would have this power over all those "other" people instead of an AA. This KKKulture will never, it seems, conquer racial hate outside of a really cosmic paradigm shift of magnificent proportions. It has never gone away, this hate of POC, now ALL outside white male KKKristiandom are hated. Shrinking resources, white population worldwide are just adding fuel to this generations long hatred.
What stupid, stupid people have done here...
marybourg
(12,639 posts)Give us a strongman and we'll follow him until a stronger man comes along. He will protect us from apes from another troupe.
3catwoman3
(24,055 posts)Can't these folks just go ahead and get raptures already?
This level of coarseness is truly horrifying.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,201 posts)Having grown up around these types, I think I "understand" them all too well.
And I "reached out" to help a snake once. As I recall, the snake showed a surprising lack of gratitude.
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)There is that element of bragging on yourself, celebrating guns, sort of running down women.
They love Trump because he's the king of all that. He even is into the whole bling thing.
I live in a redneck area and it's interesting to hear them stereotype blacks, not realizing that the redneck culture has so much in common with the ghetto culture.
They also love that in your face thing. Trump really appeals to that.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)he really taps into that audience perfectly.
BumRushDaShow
(129,625 posts)Basically posted similar in post #49.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)I swear a lot of Trump supporters look like those meth pictures the police departments release. They're not right in the head.
diva77
(7,663 posts)Solly Mack
(90,789 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,741 posts)It's chilling.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Cha
(297,774 posts)OnionPatch
(6,169 posts)You have to figure, who else would go to a campaign rally AFTER the election?
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Oh, I understand this jackass all right. All too well. He's the one who says the unemployed are lazy, that women are fair game to a horny man, that immigrants are "stealing jobs" even as they're too lazy to work, that Muslims should be run out of the country and not allowed in in the first place. He's the one who believes that Sandy Hook was faked, that Barak Obama was born in Kenya, that public schools are destroying our children, that providing health care (yes, including abortions) should be outlawed...
That's just the short list. So, I'm supposed to empathize with these people so I can--I dunno, convince them to stagger out from the Dark Ages into the light? Believe me, if I thought for a second that there's a chance to reach this kind of mind and show them a better way, I'd empathize away. Even though they bear a large responsibility for the evil in the White House, I would at least try.
But I know them, you see. I HAVE tried to talk to people before the election who said they were voting for a monster. I tried, I really did, because it was so important. In vain, by the way. I'm done with them.