If we had enough sense to couch this in terms of pathology (the kind that people pity), Trump could go–in people’s eyes–from a confident-looking, sneering person to what he is:
A sick, twisted individual who should be pitied in a way than makes people shake their heads and say,
“My God…I am surely glad to not be this man”
“Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) said he’s banking on the crowd behaving appropriately…”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Exactly how many ounces of psilocybin mushrooms have you ingested, Mr. Chabot?
“I would …"; “I think …”; “would be …”; “I would hope …"; “would silence …”
How more fucking tepid can Rep. Chabot get?
You are exactly right.
Possibly one of the greatest (and most accurate) memes of all time.
Exactly. Except it unites those of us against it and is why there is going to be fricken blue tsunami in 2020. The Rs who are jumping ship, I.e., have indicated that they won’t run for re-election, see it coming on the horizon.
Chabot has a bad case of wishful thinking. He must think tRump will actually talk about policy at his rally, even though in the two plus years tRump’s been in office he has never once talked about any policy details with the public at all. Rage and hate-speech is basically all he’s got.
I wonder if the state and city asked for their security money up front. Otherwise, too bad sucker.
“A Republican congressman from the state President Trump is visiting for a rally Thursday evening said he’s hopeful Trump will do more to prevent any racist chants on his home turf”
And if he dosen’t ?
Maybe this will give you some onions
" Could Trump be banned from National Cathedral if racist rhetoric continues? Bishop declines to say
The leaders of the Washington National Cathedral called the president’s recent racist rhetoric “violent, dehumanizing words."
“the F.B.I. says that of its 850 pending domestic terror investigations, about 40 percent involve racially motivated extremism.” (RawStory)
The United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has defined 384 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) for the United States. (Wikipedia)
The only suspense about tonight that I can see is, will trump just come out and say ni [clang] or not?
You and @katscherger beat me to it.
He’s an addict…he gets such a high from listening to these chants that I absolutely cannot believe it will not happen at some point. And when it does start, he’ll wait another 13 seconds or more before “jumping in quickly” to try to stifle it. And by “stifling it” I mean that he’ll smirk and shrug and say something along the lines of “oh, now, they told me to tell you patriotic folks out there not to chant…” Thereby clearly sending the msg “keep up the good word, MAGAts!”
ETA: lotta great minds here today – if I’d read further before responding I’d’ve discovered that @sysprog and a bunch of others basically said the same thing…
Any bone head who attends a Trump rally is immune to such thought, Congressman. Don’t get your hopes up.
At every juncture in his life Trump has sought out and taken the lowest road possible and I assume he will gleefully repeat his shameful vaudeville act as he desperately seeks to please the knuckle draggers in attendance.
He’s done it so much I learned the word for it: apophasis. “I will not say,” “We won’t talk about,” that stupid punk trick most of us learn by age 11 isn’t really naughtily clever, it’s just cheap.
As a reminder Chabot was an impeachment manager for the Clinton impeachment.
His view of morality must be quite skewed.
Nothing like blowing the deplorable dog whistle, idiot…
And the MSM will let the GOP claim that he didn’t want the chants, despite the placards.
I will preface this remark with the firm wish no harm ever comes to anyone.
I think we will see a member of Congress injured or killed, specifically a minority in either religion or race or both. The crime will be committed by someone whose motivation can be traced back to support for Trump, and their belief it’s what he would have wanted done.
There will be outrage.
And the Republican party will do nothing, going so far as having some members declare the victim brought it upon themselves, earning payback for their disloyalty and outrageous conduct and words.
Hope is a thing with feathers, Steve. In this case, a vulture.
I give it 20 minutes before it degrades into a howler monkey rally.
