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suffragette

(12,232 posts)
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 11:03 PM Oct 2016

Bob Schieffer just went off on Trump, to paraphrase that it was disgraceful,

Like a Banana Republic, and asking what we have come to, to have a display like trotting out the women accusers and bring them to the audience.

Then he said it was like Wrestlemania.

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Bob Schieffer just went off on Trump, to paraphrase that it was disgraceful, (Original Post) suffragette Oct 2016 OP
i agree with mr schieffer. it was like wrestlemania spanone Oct 2016 #1
Yes. When they came back after commercial, he was still shaking his head about it. suffragette Oct 2016 #3
Welcome to Idiocracy, Mr Scheiffer. roamer65 Oct 2016 #2
Found video and posted below. It's a bit out of sync, but has his raw comments. suffragette Oct 2016 #7
I have no sympathy for Schieffer. Arkana Oct 2016 #8
Agree with you and no sympathy for him. suffragette Oct 2016 #10
+1,000 malaise Oct 2016 #4
Found video here suffragette Oct 2016 #5
Thanks malaise Oct 2016 #6
Sick and scary. It is scary that so many in this country would support this Mussolini wannabe. suffragette Oct 2016 #9
Those idiot Trumpanzees are all authoritarians meow2u3 Oct 2016 #13
Apt analysis. Explains their admiration of Scalia, too. suffragette Oct 2016 #14
Funny thing about that. Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2016 #22
"On both sides Bob?" "On both sides?" woolldog Oct 2016 #21
False equivalency - exactly so and it was a transparent attempt. suffragette Oct 2016 #24
How Low Can They Go? colsohlibgal Oct 2016 #11
Exactly. Threatening to jail a political opponent - truly sickening. suffragette Oct 2016 #12
After deep thought and reflection, I have come to a profound conclusion. world wide wally Oct 2016 #15
Sums Trump up well. suffragette Oct 2016 #16
Here's one of the quotes- Rose Siding Oct 2016 #17
Thanks Rose. That was what Schieffer said. Powerful picture of Trump as the buffoonish suffragette Oct 2016 #18
The wrestlemania vibe has been their since at least the GOP convention killbotfactory Oct 2016 #19
Good point. Most of us certainly noticed. suffragette Oct 2016 #20

Arkana

(24,347 posts)
8. I have no sympathy for Schieffer.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 11:18 PM
Oct 2016

He, along with everyone else, helped enable this. They treated the Trump viewpoint--the Tea Party viewpoint--like it was valid, and it's led to this.

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
10. Agree with you and no sympathy for him.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 11:24 PM
Oct 2016

But in that somewhat raw moment he gave an apt summation of Trump's behavior.

malaise

(268,702 posts)
6. Thanks
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 11:17 PM
Oct 2016

Folks with his experience look at the entire package from Friday to tonight. Don the Con is a scumbag - locking up his opponent. He's sick.

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
9. Sick and scary. It is scary that so many in this country would support this Mussolini wannabe.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 11:20 PM
Oct 2016

Actually that explains some of his accusations about Hillary, as if she had control of all laws enacted or not.

He views everything through the prism of a tyrant.

meow2u3

(24,759 posts)
13. Those idiot Trumpanzees are all authoritarians
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 11:56 PM
Oct 2016

They also have tyrannical tendencies, mostly in the home, where they can, and often do, wield absolute power over their families, terrorizing them in the process.
Authoritarians also tend to trust people who are inherently untrustworthy as far as normal people with a functioning conscience are concerned.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
22. Funny thing about that.
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 08:29 PM
Oct 2016

When they idiotically claimed President Obama was being a tyrant, they didn't find tyranny so very appealing. What's up with that, I wonder.

 

woolldog

(8,791 posts)
21. "On both sides Bob?" "On both sides?"
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 09:14 AM
Oct 2016

smh at the pathetic attempts at false equivalency. It's like it's hard wired into these media clowns. To Scheifer's credit he said no, but you could tell he almost instinctively was going to say yes,both sides. lol

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
24. False equivalency - exactly so and it was a transparent attempt.
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 10:54 PM
Oct 2016

He almost went along with them, but then didn't.

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
12. Exactly. Threatening to jail a political opponent - truly sickening.
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 11:54 PM
Oct 2016

And so much bile before that, toward anyone different or with a different point of view.

world wide wally

(21,739 posts)
15. After deep thought and reflection, I have come to a profound conclusion.
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 01:07 AM
Oct 2016

Deplorable and irredeemable are exactly the right words.

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
18. Thanks Rose. That was what Schieffer said. Powerful picture of Trump as the buffoonish
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 02:18 AM
Oct 2016

tyrant he is in his own little empire and what he wishes to be over all the U.S.

killbotfactory

(13,566 posts)
19. The wrestlemania vibe has been their since at least the GOP convention
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 03:00 AM
Oct 2016

It was completely unhinged. How did they not notice?

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