This Is Where It Should Have Ended...

[Rubyshoo]

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[Srkdqltr]

1. Goes to show that we are not what we think we are.

No one in the crowd objected.

[hibbing]

19. In fact they laughed, disgusting n/t

[plimsoll]

21. This is a little off isn't it.

America isn't made up universally decent caring people. That's correct, but that kind of thinking would be American exceptionalism.

I object to their behavior, but you can't make a universal statement about them that doesn't wind up dehumanizing them or othering them as Americans. We're stuck saying that Trump supporters represent the ugliest thoughts and emotions mankind has to offer, and we don't think America should glorify that.

[whathehell]

37. Yes, it is a little off..

Of course "America isn't made up of universally decent and caring people"

Question: What country is?

Answer: None.

Thank you for pointing out what should be obvious.

[Lucky Luciano]

48. I don't have a problem othering MAGAts. They other-ed themselves. They weren't born that way. They chose it.

[plimsoll]

60. As much as I loath their behavior,

and agree that it's a choice on their part. It's othering at best and dehumanizing more generally. I can't accept their willingness to discriminate and other people they are deluded enough to believe are beneath them, but I'm sure not going to emulate them.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

63. It's their choice, not something they were born with

They deserve all the othering they get. They'll other us into the grave.

[Zoomie1986]

75. People who choose to be vicious bigots and traitors

Don't get invited to the grownup table. Period.

You 'other' people who are not nice people, all the time, even if you don't want to admit it. Tell us how often you have pedophiles, rapists and serial killers over for dinner. Never, I'd bet. Know why? Their behavior makes them unfit for being in the company of decent people because they go out of their way to hurt people.

Same thing with MAGA. They are terrible people who have gone out of their way to hurt people, and thus have earned scorn and being excluded from polite society. Nobody made them be that way but them. Nobody owes them anything as long as they insist on being awful people.

They can fix that by growing up, growing a brain and growing a heart. Until then, they deserve every ounce of scorn they have earned.

[brush]

55. Hah. Hard to defend that disgusting behavior. Why try?

Apparently rethugs liked what they saw in trump.

[plimsoll]

59. Not trying.

It was just predicated on what I viewed as an error in what most Americans think of ourselves. The ones who think we're special are usually pretty crap people, while the ones who would like us to do better acknowledge that we have some problems.

[brush]

62. Hope you learn soon that the maga mobs are extreme winger slobs who eat up trump's crap.

They're not worth giving the benefit of the doubt.

[whathehell]

29. No one in THAT crowd objected..

As both elections have shown, they are not reflective of America as a whole.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

64. Just 2 in 5. ..nt

[whathehell]

71. I'm sorry, but could you clarify?

"just 2 in 5"...What?

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

72. 40% of people, wth :-) 4 in 10 or 2 in 5 n/t

[whathehell]

73. 40%

of WHICH people..The crowd at Trump's event or Americans at large??

[Funtatlaguy]

2. Thank you. David Letterman said the same.

This event got WAYYYYYY too little attention in the mainstream media.
And I doubt it got any attention at all in conservative media.
An “adult” mocking someone with a severe disability is reprehensible and shows so many signs of a very mentally disturbed individual.

Thank you for pointing this out.
It still doesn’t get enough attention.

[RobinA]

45. I, For One,

point it out every chance I get. I was a Trump agnostic before that. Just another politician, yakety yak. Then he pulled this stunt and I realized he was much worse, a third grade playground bully through and through.

Couldn't agree more it should have ended there.

[hadEnuf]

53. In the days before the sewer overflowed and right-wing media took over, Trump would have ended there.

Filth like Trump and his followers have always been lurking under their rocks, but they were not professionally glorified like they are today.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

65. That is the fault of the Punditocracy and their bosses. ..nt

[unblock]

3. He's done career-ending daily. The media hold him to a different standard, which is no standard at all.

Remember when a candidate having possibly maybe technically been sorta less than perfectly buttoned down handling information that was t supposed to be classified but was later deemed to have been retroactively classified was a career-ending scandal of epic proportions?

Then when stealing blatantly labeled classified information, leaving it lying about unlocked and unattended, and even sharing some with random visitors was no big deal?

Fascinating, isn't it?

[Cosmocat]

6. Yep

Republicans had chipped away at this country's sense of decency for decades, he saw that and he finished it off within months of coming down the escalator.

By the fall there was nothing ge could say or do that they wouldn't excuse, and the country rolled over, not holding them accountable at all for enabling him.

[central scrutinizer]

39. True, I thought he was done when the Access Hollywood tape surfaced

But Comey had other ideas

[LuckyCharms]

4. I have a cousin who was a staunch Republican...

until this happened.

This was a bridge too far for her.

She opened her eyes and saw the light after this situation, and she completely changed her views.

She now aggressively works locally for progressive causes.

[Polybius]

35. It made her change her views on everything?

For example, Trump making fun of the disabled made her change her views on abortion, gun-control, gay/trans rights, taxes, the environment, and infostructure? If yes, wonderful!

[LuckyCharms]

38. Pretty much, yes. She did a U-turn.

She is a community organizer and she WAS a big Mitt Romney fan.

After Trump made fun of the disabled reporter, she turned her nose up at the Republican party.

[3auld6phart]

5. Orange freak

This the most unsettling picture of that orange freak I does say a lot about t the repuke party .Traitors and cowards. Fucking MSM, a lowing that abomination to lead them. May the MSM jackals burn in hell for keeping that buffoon in the daily news.

[UpInArms]

7. No parent would think that was appropriate

so, why would anyone think that this abomination should be anything other than a garbage collector?

[Biophilic]

8. Hey. garbage collectors as essential. There is nothing essential about trump. He just needs to go away.

[JanMichael]

44. He needs to be in the back of a dump truck

And taken to the nearest landfill

[Timeflyer]

9. And "Christian" power mongers and their followers still support him.

Hard not to wish he'd suffer some debilitating physical disorder that money can't fix.

[BattleRow]

14. Wouldn't that be

poetic justice?

If tragedy would befall him and he were disabled??

Well,I expect him to be permanently disabled come November...

[Diamond_Dog]

10. So many times, he did or said something that made me think,

“He’s done. That’s just too evil, even for MAGATs to accept.” But it never happens.

I thought after he blew off the cemetery commemoration in France and then called the fallen soldiers “losers and suckers” that was going to be the end of him, too.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

66. They're as bad as he is. Anyone decent has left. ..nt

[Wounded Bear]

11. There were numerous places where "it should have ended." This November is the time to seal the deal...

and lock trump out of our government forever.

[magicarpet]

34. Voting is the only single remaining avenue at our disposal,....

... to prevent the coronation of the vile and venomous King trDUMP.

If we fuck this election up we can say bye-bye to the the America we know, love, and cherish. Fascism has become very fashionable under trDUMP. But Fascism will bring unfathomable restrictions upon our society and exceedingly detrimental to our longterm cultural well being. Once you start allowing things to become hyper politically regressive it is nearly impossible to change course and right the ship of state. We can not allow these fanatical Nazis to captain this ship or chart the course or influence the destination America chooses to travel now or into the future. They are greedy, they are gluttonous, they are vindictive, they are under handed, they are fabricators, they are liars, they are selfish, they are incomprehensively violent, are vehemently uncompromising, .... the list could go on and on.

[Solomon]

12. It shoulda ended with grab 'em by the puxxx.

[Lucky Luciano]

49. I believe mocking the disabled reporter came before that.

[MacKasey]

13. You are exactly correct!

The media failed to do its job.

[BattleRow]

15. There's a reason they call it

programming..

The news outlets have been aquiescent accomplices to his despotic deeds.

[Wingus Dingus]

16. Says a lot about almost half of the American people.

And nothing good.

[uponit7771]

17. THIS !!! The majority of the M$M has been helping Benedict Donald all along.

[Hotler]

18. It didn't end there because he is a reflection of his supporters. His voters are mean, hateful and cruel people.

And they walk among us and call themselves Christian.

[PatrickforB]

20. Well, yeah. There have been literally dozens of times when Trump's political aspirations should have

been destroyed at his own hand (or by his own tongue), but Wall Street and billionaires keep propping him up. Better for shareholder PROFITS, you see, to have the appearance of a horserace.

We must ALWAYS remember these media streaming stations like Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, the NYT, WaPo and so on are all publicly traded. That is why the media is so biased. Their executives have only ONE fiduciary responsibility and that is to generate PROFITS for shareholders.

That's it. If you want to know more, reference the late Lynn Stout's book The Myth of Shareholder Value. Stout was a distinguished professor of corporate law at Cornell. Her book will give you a complete picture of this legal doctrine of shareholder primacy, established through a MI Supreme Court ruling in 1919 against Henry Ford in favor of the Dodge brothers. When Ford raised the wages for his factory workers so they could afford to buy the cars they built, the Dodge brothers, who held shares in Ford Motor Company sued on the basis that paying his workers 'excessively high' wages deprived them of PROFITS to which they were ENTITLED as shareholders. They won, and this laid the groundwork for our current sociopathic corporate culture.

There is nothing at all about truth in news reporting.

This is the fulcrum, you know. If there were an amendment attached to one of the omnibus bills requiring a change to a stakeholder approach in corporate governance in which the interests of workers, consumers (including truth in news reporting), and the environment were held equal to shareholder profits, and then we had the SEC and other government agencies ENFORCE it with real teeth, we would solve a whole bunch of seemingly intractable problems.

Consider big oil. What if Noble Energy was required to consider the environment equally to shareholder profits? They would have to shift operations away from oil per se and become an energy, rather than an oil company.

And Comcast? What if they were requred to report the actual truth in news (they own NBC, you know)? What if Fox was? ABC (owned by Disney)? See what I mean?

This is why we are so very ignorant as a people. Wall Street wants us that way, because ignorance is better for higher short-term quarterly PROFITS. This is also why we have the right wing war on 'wokeness'. They WANT us to remain asleep. Too bad they overextended so badly with Trump, Project 2025 and Dobbs. We're lucky there. If they would have remained silent and secret about their actual agenda, our republic would probably end in November. Only billionaire hubris has allowed us to push back with real power.

But this huge evil upon us is utterly banal - it stems from the greed of a few people who wish to put the rest of us in an economic stranglehold.

[magicarpet]

22. The MAGA crowd of meatheads thought that was trDUMP's proudest moment.

Where trDUMP gleefully held a physically disabled individual up to public ridicule in front of his MAGA cult - and they obediently with great enthusiasm - wildly clapped and cheered.

Feeding disabled people to the lions brings happiness and joy to trDUMP's visceral systems and those of his MAGA cult.

THE Tangerine Menace is a sick and vindictive individual way beyond any bounds of normalcy. The slightest provocation, imagined or otherwise, will set him off on his rampage of hatred and vengence.

A person with a healthy and properly functioning mind does not act in this way. Yet we incessantly give him the soapbox so he can habitually contaminate our culture with his abhorrent communications and messages. While claiming that he is the savior chosen by God to save America from itself. And a good portion of the population blindly falls for this madness without any reservations or apprehensions what so ever.

What a pathetic place our society has backed itself into- giving this clown an opportunity to stand at the national podium - spewing his rediculous bile across the American political landscape say after day.

The task of dumbing down America has reached a new pinnacle every time trDump opens his vile mouth, while imparting his wisdom and promises to Make AmeriKKKa Great Again. What an embarrassing charade of qualified leadership trDUMP has foisted upon The United States of America, our country is way better than this.

Vote like there is no tomorrow on our coming horizons - if trDUMP captures his coveted royal throne for round two. Because the idea of no tomorrows - after the coronation of King trDUMP - might indeed acurately become our precognative and preciently predictive ultimate final result.

trDUMP on day one intends to totally vanquish and eventually eliminate those he preceives as disloyal or as political enemies. So then he can consolidate his total power over America, much like the way his dictatorial mentor Putin rules over Russia. Strongman style like Pinochet, where political adversaries simply disappear into dimensions of the unknown - never to be seen or heard from again.

Owning the Libs will not be limited to a political sports gamemanship any longer - but become a death warrant upon the thumbs down signal to the Fascists and Nazis to attack - upon the whims of KIng trDUMP and his royal entourage.

Political progressive and liberals will come under great risk to their physical wellbeing - once King trDUMP fully unleashes his Fascist and Nazi soldiers upon the country side - while Khrishtun Nationalism and a Fascist brand of Dominionist Theocracy is rammed down our throats.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

74. My sister said "Oh, he's just kidding" when I said I didn't like what he did

I have disabilities, and she damn well knows it. I don't talk to her much anymore.

[Paseo Mundial]

23. I know that's right.

He showed them (GOP) who he was, and they made him their leader.

[Wednesdays]

50. Welcome to DU!

[calimary]

61. Welcome to DU, Paseo Mundial!

Sure says plenty about both him AND his incomprehensible GOP fan base.

[ConstanceCee]

24. But....

But is isn't just the media or the billionaires or the MAGATS; the Republican party and elected Republicans also enabled this. There were so many times when when it should have been the absolute end of Trump's political career.
Now some Republicans and some in the media are speaking up and telling the truth. But Trump's behavior hasn't changed. What has?

[Stargazer99]

25. Many of my friends have nothing but disgust for Comcast "services" that come with a high price

The city of Tacoma WA had an internet service most people could afford that was called Click and it disappeared - I often question why and have some concerns as to how and why it disappeared. Also two of Boeing whistle blowers committed suicide with in two months of each other. Each whistle blower told family that if they committed "suicide" it was not the truth. It seem to me as a nation it is time to investigate some of these big businesses

[ChoppinBroccoli]

26. Remember What Forced Gary Hart Out Of The Presidential Race?

ONE picture of him on a boat with a woman who wasn't his wife. And he was forced to drop out of the Presidential race. If you made a list of all the things Trump has done since 2016 that are degrees of magnitude worse than that, we'd be here all day.

[Wednesdays]

51. You forgot the Golden Rule: IOKIYAR

It's okay if you're a Republican!


And it's the most horrid, scandalous sin if you're a Democrat!

[GiqueCee]

28. I was disgusted to hear...

a coworker at the time brush it off as, "Oh, that's just Trump being Trump," as if that excused anything, and I told him so. Fat lot of good it did.

[hawkeye21]

30. Absolutely

This is something no decent parent would accept from a three-year-old. But tens of millions of Americans want this piece of scum in the highest office in the land. Hillary Clinton attacked Trump over this disgusting act, but it didn't matter. And that's the problem with a cult.

Every time I see this clip, I am physically repulsed at not only Trump but at the people who approved of this sociopathic display of inhumanity. I guess this is another reason the "Evangelical Christians" love this guy so much. Hell, Franklin Graham even came out and defended Trump AGAIN yesterday . . .

All I ask is that somehow, somewhere, this piece of garbage finally gets what he deserves.

[Sky Jewels]

31. And well before that, his career should have ended when he

advocated for the execution of five innocent teenagers for the "crime" of being Black.

[wryter2000]

32. Oh, but if it had

He would have gone on happily grifting for the rest of his life. Now, he’s going to end up bankrupt and in prison.

[Blue Owl]

33. Who the fuck normalized that moment? The M$M. They're responsible for that POS.

[kentuck]

36. And why didn't it end there?

The media shrugged it off.

As they shrugged off all the cruel and inhumane remarks that he made.

And as they failed in reporting his crimes in context with the laws on the book.

He committed treason.

[IbogaProject]

40. Yep, I always hated him but that made me wish him to be disabled alive and trapped

I still wish him to end up with severe musculoskeletal infirmities so he can't speak well and looks disabled. This is so when he and or his supporters ask for 'prayers' for their spoiled brat I'll post that video with a "LOL, No way".

[ShazzieB]

46. I'd settle for a massive stroke.

Not a fatal one, but the kind that paralyzes him physically while preserving enough cognitive function that he's aware of his situation.

Spending the rest of his life helpless and dependent on others for all his needs and unable to bully anyone would be a fitting end for him, I think.

I never used to think like this, but having to watch that so-called human do and say horrible things to people, try to steal an election he LOST, endanger our national secunity and our country's standing in the world, etc. etc. etc., has taken a toll on my capacity to feel anything but contempt for this loser. 😬😖😡

[Skittles]

41. and to the pople who repuke FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS

would JESUS make fun of disabled folk? REPUKE VOTERS ARE HYPOCRITES

[czarjak]

42. Cruelty's Point

Lots of carry-over.

[TrollBuster9090]

43. Either There, or When He Said "I Like People Who WEREN'T Captured."

The Republican Party died the day that rectal hemorrhoid of a man said John McCain wasn't a war hero. He was just a sucker, for getting captured in the first place. And the Party's base loved it. That's the day the party of Lincoln died. It's just taking a really long time for the corpse to rot away, and stop stinking up the place.

And every day that this clown's popularity with half the American public has grown, my faith in humanity had diminished. America has definitely lost its innocence. Now we know how the SENSIBLE Germans felt, during the rise of the Nazis.

[HeartsCanHope]

47. With Trump the cruelty is always the point!

What a despicable human being. There will never be justice for the hateful, horrible things he has done--but hopefully some jail time in the near future!

[True Dough]

52. It should have ended

before it started, with Trump's daddy wearing a condom.

[Doodley]

54. It should have ended when Trump said he was going to prove Obama wasn't born in America.

The media should have never moved on until they had held Trump to account -- that means demanding he provide that proof or apologize before asking him any other questions. The Democrats should have taken the same approach. Instead, he was given a pass, allowing it to become acceptable behavior to his supporters.

[wishstar]

67. That was his first "Big Lie" that media and prominent public figures should have shut down immediately

I think they thought surely the public wouldn't take him seriously when it was such an easily proven lie since Obama's Hawaiian birth had been documented from the start. The dangerous result in not taking him seriously has resulted in the MAGA cult.

[Golden Raisin]

56. Exactly! Times a million!

[Joinfortmill]

57. Yup. Trump is loathsome

[Orrex]

58. Every Trump voter is an ignorant, racist fuckhead. Absolutely no exceptions.

[twodogsbarking]

68. What they all said times millions and millions.

[EddieOnTheMesa]

69. Not Even

Letting him off the pussy grabbing line was and still is unbelievable.

[scarletlib]

70. I have never forgotten. Just absolutely disgusting and cruel. Trump is an abomination. I could never vote for him.

[kacekwl]

76. Should have ended when he

slid down the escalator like a turd in the toilet bowl. I never believed how it went any further.