Trump responds to ‘lock them up’ chant in an unsettling way
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Ideally, we’d heard from Attorney General Bill Barr this morning, and he could make clear that he isn’t investigating anyone for “treason.” He could also explain that he has no intention of locking up federal investigators who did nothing wrong.
Trump responds to ‘lock them up’ chant in an unsettling way
Toward the end of his campaign rally in Pennsylvania last night, Donald Trump used some ridiculous rhetoric that, alas, has become quite routine.
“They were spying, they were spying on our campaign. I’ll tell you what: if that ever happened to the other side, this thing would have been over two years ago and you know it would have been treason, they would have called it treason and that’s what it is. It was treason and it should never be allowed to happen to another president again ever. Ever, ever, ever.”
At this point, the president started to return to his prepared remarks – and his usual wrap-up rhetoric – when his followers interrupted him with a chant. “Lock them up,” they said, “Lock them up.”
If you watch the clip , note that Trump actually paused, took a couple of steps away from the podium, and reveled for a while, enjoying the chant. The Republican eventually returned to the microphone with some words that were intended to be reassuring.
“Well,” Trump told his audience, “we have a great new attorney general who’s going to give it a very fair look.”
His supporters roared with approval.
The president quickly added, “You have always been loyal to this nation. Now you finally have a president who is loyal to you. It’s taken you a long time.”
It was all quite creepy. Here was an American president, accusing his perceived enemies of “treason,” and comforting his followers – who want U.S. officials imprisoned – with promises about the attorney general looking into it. Trump thought nothing of following this up with boasts about he, unlike his recent predecessors, are “loyal” to Americans.
Those who recoiled in discomfort can take solace in the fact that they weren’t alone. Walter Shaub, the former director of the Office of Government Ethics, suggested that this portion of the far-right rally had “ shades of 1937 .”
Ideally, we’d heard from Attorney General Bill Barr this morning, and he could make clear that he isn’t investigating anyone for “treason.” He could also explain that he has no intention of locking up federal investigators who did nothing wrong.
In a perfect world, we might even expect an attorney general to make clear he’s uncomfortable with such undemocratic displays, perhaps even threatening to resign unless the president stops using him this way.
But Barr seems unwilling to do anything of the kind. If he’s at all concerned with what Trump said, the Republican lawyer has not shared those apprehensions with the public.
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This is Banana Republic stuff. Trump embarrasses every American, as do his brain dead rally goers.
We can thank John for constantly reminding us how much the left hates approximately half of Americans.
Preacher, does the President Of The United States have ANY responsibility to behave in an ethical manner?
I responded to your hatred and slurs of Trump supporters, not a question of Trump’s ethics
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Who is embracing evil?
You have a totally strange concept of ethics. Demagogues are rarely ethical.
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Every Democrat in office and especially those running for president are demagogues to those of us who love liberty and our Constitution
Aren't you one of those people who want to take liberty from women by denying them full rights to control their full physiology, instead having to defer to male politicians, clergy and corporations?
We are an interconnected and interdependent society so we have public policies that work for the benefit of that society. If we weren't a society that we would not need the Constitution to lay the groundwork on the jobs of the government, to protect our rights and how the government is to function. You claim to love the Constitution and yet argue for the policies of the previous Articles of Confederation, that created a much weaker central government. The AoC was replaced with the Constitution because it did not allow the government to function as necessary.
We have the freedom to make our medical decision
That is the only tax policy that is proven to work.
Nobody is being enslaved to the state.
LGBT people have the same right to be who they are as we heteros do. Your omnipotent and omniscient god made them that way, so why are you comoplaining?
I am a humanist so this is a personal attack. We need to care for others like ourselves in a compassionate and equal way. Our laws and rights are not to be filtered your religious beliefs or those of anyone else because of the two religious clauses in the First Amendment.
Caring for the environment isn't worship. It is pragmatic common sense. If we do not care for the earth that we rely on to survive we will die.
I went to all the trouble to address each point individually only to have it deleted by a jackbooted mod that hates free speech.
Did you notice how concerned conservatives were about CIS women occasionally losing to trans athletes but the same conservatives turn around and support the recent draconian abortion bans. This is the hypocrisy of their stance of protecting the rights of women.
We must rise up and put an end to this abuse of our rights immediately! Maybe we can convince Rachel Maddow or Amy Goodman to support our lefty cause?
But some are so ignorant they're immune to any embarrassment since they'd have to actually have at least a cursory civics education to see how wildly inappropriate and inept the Presidents actions really are. I believe many imagine the Presidency as nothing more than a figure head like "World Wrestling Champ" which is just a worthless title given to the best choreographed fake wrestler. They cheer and scream their Champions name but in the back of their minds, even they know its all fake. But they don't really care if the fight was all preplanned, they're going to tell you how hard it is to fake wrestle like that, how tough it is for a muscle brain to pretend to smash their foes.
Trump is pretending to play President. I'm not saying he isn't President, he's just so inexperienced and unqualified all he can do is pretend. He is the WWE fake wrestling President, and those who care about America and know what an important job the President is supposed to be doing are immeasurably embarrassed by this monumental pretender. But trying to convince his base that he's a WWE wrestler doesn't work because they're excited he's a WWE wrestler. And when the WWE wrestlers they admire get up on stage and foam at the mouth with all sorts of rhetoric about what they're going to do to their opponent, the Trump base cheers even though they know none of it is actually true, heck, they know the wrestling match they're about to watch is fake, but they don't care, it's giving them what they really want, ignorant male on male choreographed pummeling that takes no education to understand, takes no intelligence, takes no actual thought process or reaction other than caveman-like grunts.
Trump doesn't want to be president, he wants to be something new and "improved" , he wants to embody a new vision of what "America" means. It is cartoonish and boorish and arguably evil, and none of that bothers him in the slightest. He's a narcissist after all, and is pleased that he is beyond criticism to his devotees, who are the only ones he cares about anyway.
If someone created a dark comedy satire about how a tv game show host destroyed America's faith in itself, it couldn't be any more absurd than the reality.
Can nobody rid us of that awful man?
Those entities, foreign and domestic, that desire the weakening of American resolve owe much gratitude to the genteel persuasion and outright perfection of Russian INTEL and the willing acceptance by 'some Americans' believing the Russian propaganda as truth. "Lock her up" was not an accident.
Example: The phenom sweeping America concerning the 'worship of the fetus' has nothing to do with the fetus.
Do you think there may have been plants in his audience?
Yes. Everything was staged. Everything.
I will add this. 'Allegedly' the Trump escalator candidacy announcement, over half of the 'attendees' were hired through a New York agency which fills background personnel for movies, TV series scenes--etc..
That doesn't surprise me.