Just a sample of the sad scene we faced at the Trump rally in Tampa

[teach1st]

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Jim Acosta
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Just a sample of the sad scene we faced at the Trump rally in Tampa. I’m very worried that the hostility whipped up by Trump and some in conservative media will result in somebody getting hurt. We should not treat our fellow Americans this way. The press is not the enemy.

[Trust Buster]

1. Is this what "civility" looks like in Wingnut Nation ?

[Turbineguy]

2. Sad really.

[2naSalit]

3. One of the best comments

was,

"The woman dressed as a picnic table seemed civil."

[George II]

65. I was in an Italian restaurant last week, I think we ate dinner on her back! (think about it, lol)

[enid602]

85. Dinner

Must have been at an Olive Garden.

[calimary]

107. Nothing but the best.

Kinda makes ya proud, ‘eh?

[True Blue American]

123. HaHa!

Good one. Was that the one holding up the middle finger?

[peekaloo]

4. I mentioned this in another thread

Local tee vee was reporting from social media sites about "Acosta trying out his stand up routine" alongside chants of "CNN sucks".

Pretty much all of Pasco County showed up.

[barbtries]

116. really?

that sucks.

[TimeToGo]

144. No, they didn't

[barbtries]

146. thank you.

i think his cult is shrinking. he's panicked and keeps having rallies to fill that huge black hole where his soul went to die. we just need to GOTV.

[Roland99]

5. Wow. Such ignorance. Here's more

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[workinclasszero]

19. Remember #civility

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

52. They resemble meth heads.

[TheBlackAdder]

94. Especially the old crone with the Hollister shirt and cheap Claire's hoop earrings.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

96. Last writhing gasps of the cruel and stupid.

I am unafraid of russian collaborators. They are just loud and ugly. We are going to revitalize this country yet again. This time we should do it our way, for us, and enough of the horse-shit malignant fairness doctrine type memes to tug at the heartstrings etc.

[sheshe2]

79. Yikes!

From the twitter feed.

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[underpants]

103. See. I knew that was meme worthy.

[Maraya1969]

110. Yea, I hope these people are recognized by their jobs, churches, whatever. People are so

stupid for acting like animals on tape.

[jpak]

6. Look Mommy, Morans!

[underpants]

102. Look Ma! No brains!

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Add in plastic guns that can't be sensed by metal detectors . . . . what could go wrong?

[calimary]

108. Exactly.

What could possibly go wrong?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

120. If that happened at their rally...

I wouldn’t shed a tear.

[Roland99]

8. When's the last time this baby's diaper was changed???

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[a kennedy]

15. I'm sorry but that is NOT a cute baby.......

[Roland99]

16. Well, it does appear as if it's about to cry.

I would too I being held up like that there too

[Rorey]

51. Child abuse

How stupid does someone have to be to take a baby to one of those things? And "mom" has her fingers digging in to the poor little guy's chest. And it looks like he's on the 11th hour of a 12-hour diaper.

Still, not surprising.

[Mariana]

91. Well, it might be cute.

There's no way to tell when it's being hoisted up like a piñata. And look at those fingers digging into its little chest, and the overflowing diaper. Poor thing.

[3catwoman3]

92. That was my first thought, too.

And having spent over 40 years in pediatrics, I have seen my fair share of babies. They are not all cute.

[underpants]

117. Funny side story

When we were pregnant 13 years ago - Oh God! She's a teenager - we went to have the sonogram. The tech comes in to get the images then the Doc comes in. She says "She's going to a pretty little girl". I laughed, "I appreciate that but I'm sure you say that all the time" Doc, "No, I don't".

She went on the explain that she had learned early on that she needed a heads up from the techs before she went into see the prospective parents. They have a system of hand signals so she knows what to expect. The Doc said she'd had some cringe moments.

So I asked, "How can you tell?"
Doc, "The symmetry of the face"

[a kennedy]

119. and i'm sure she a real beauty now, eh underpants??

[underpants]

135. Considering the gene pool she crawled out of

She is a good smart person and she happens to be pretty.

[olegramps]

118. I don't have anything to say about the baby except I hope it outgrows its parents.

The sad fact is that most of these people's children will grow up to be just as ignorant and filled with hatred as their parents. I spent my early years in the South and watched it happen. The parents raise these children in a household that is dedicated to racism and hatred and they soon learn that acceptance is predicated on adopting the same attitudes. Its driven by a desire to be accepted and belong. Anyone who doesn't share their prejudices is totally ostracized. This is especially true in the churches and schools which foster this behavior. If you don't share their hatred of Democrats as immoral, un-Americans you will quickly find that you will be the subject of the same hatred they have for anyone who doesn't support their prejudices.

[Butterflylady]

142. Kinda agree

However, he/she, can't tell, looks absolutely terrified.

[GusBob]

25. Toothless and in a prison jumper

Future meth head

[lunasun]

53. +++the odds are with that

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

55. Trump Nation...about to get unmasked

that blonde lady has been at SEVERAL of these rallies. These folks are Crisis Audience Members. One town to the next. Free chit-lins and tent space.

[peekaloo]

31. Old timey prison outfit.

appropriate!

[alphafemale]

41. That diaper weighs as much as that empty eyed baby.

[miss-nasty]

42. Not a pretty baby at all...

looks like could be Shawn Spicers baby!

[renate]

47. Criticizing a BABY'S looks?

We’re better than that.

(I’m not addressing you, Roland. I’m just disappointed by some of the replies you got.)

[StarryNite]

82. Ack!

I feel sorry for that kid on so many different levels.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

122. Bleccch.

Unfortunate kid...in more ways than one.

[louis-t]

134. Reminds me of Family Guy episode where Stewie is left alone.

His diaper is so full, he's dragging it around.

[kimbutgar]

9. Before this so called presidency is over media people will die because of the crazy persons rhetoric

[dameatball]

10. Why did they bother to have seats? No one was in them.

[Afromania]

11. That's the collective face of "economic anxiety" right there.

[lunasun]

56. Hey listen to what they are saying and try to understand them

[spanone]

12. trump. the most dangerous man on earth.

they live up to their name...deplorables. one and all.

[democratisphere]

14. A bunch of f'ing degenerates!

[Kaleva]

17. "That woman dressed like a picnic table seems civil." LOL!

[wasupaloopa]

18. Yea I think Dems should try to understand these

folks.

[Agschmid]

49. Not possible.

[workinclasszero]

20. Wow look at all that economic insecurity folks

[oasis]

21. They are putty in his hands. nt

[Volaris]

71. If he showed up and said 'Bend the knee.', how many of them do you think would actually do it?

[oasis]

77. Every last Deplorable.

[MontanaMama]

93. He effectively told the soybean farmers

to bend over and they are doing exactly that. Cult behavior, pure and simple.

[colsohlibgal]

22. Sick And Sad

These crazed righties are dangerous, so reminiscent of early Nazi gatherings/rallies in the early 1930s in Germany. I blame this situation on 20+ years of Fox News/ Right Wing Radio propoganda enabled by Reagan doing away with the long standing Fairness Doctrine late in his 2nd term.

A sizable minority believing in a false alternate reality is never a good thing.

[elias7]

23. Makin' America great again...

[Elwood P Dowd]

24. That is scary. These people are approaching Nazi Brown Shirt type behavior.

Shocking how easy it is to brainwash the 30-percent crowd into behaving like sub-humans.

[SeattleVet]

35. Approaching?

They've hit it a while ago.

These are the relatively *civil* ones; the really bad ones don't make it into these rallies.

[Elwood P Dowd]

83. The Brown Shirts actually beat up and even killed people.

These are not quite there yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if that happened.

[SeattleVet]

87. As I said, the ones that we see here are the relatively sane ones.

They have beat up people at other events, and some of this same scum killed Heather Heyer in Charlottesville.

[Juliusseizure]

139. That's only due to threat of prosecution

One of the first things Hitler did in creating a police state was take control of the judiciary and law enforcement.

I’m 100% certain these folks would be proud members of Hitler’s Nazi party, and if not violent blownshirts themselves, supporters of it.

[rwsanders]

40. I don't know if it was brainwashing. This was always there like moisture in the atmosphere, ...

just waiting for that small contaminant to condense into hail.
But they are whipped into a little bit of a tizzy. He has them stirred, so what will he try to unleash them on next?

[kairos12]

26. Treasonous Putin boot lickers all.

[Scurrilous]

27. This is why I rarely leave Miami-Dade County.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

128. The sobering truth is if he holds it in Miami Dade County, we'd still see the same types of people.

If he holds it in New York City, we would still see the same types of people. If he holds it in San Francisco, we would still see the same types of people.

These deplorable shits are everywhere. There is no safe haven. Don't assume otherwise.

[jimlup]

28. Ironically I think the sadest part of all of this is that these folks

really don't understand what they are really angry about and with whom.

[smirkymonkey]

32. +1000

[peabody]

38. A friend of mine

reached the same conclusion: they’re mad at the wrong people.

[Volaris]

70. Correct. When that woman nearly cried and said 'I want my country back!'..

The ONLY response the Democratic Party should have put to the Public for the next 6 months was

'First, you have to tell me who you THINK took it from you.'

We're living with the result of Fox News getting to answer that question, and not us.

[calimary]

125. I'd be interested to see what answers they come up with.

And with whose talking points.

[Crowman2009]

143. I would have asked: Which one, the Confederacy?

Then I would add: FUGHETTABOUTIT!

[underpants]

113. They also don't understand the role CNN played in his election run

Full speeches. Pre-"game" coverage even and

[True Blue American]

130. Those people blame everything that happens

On some one other than themselves. You see them all over. Instead of picking themselves up after something bad happens they simply whine for the rest of their lives.

How many, among us have not had to bounce back from adversity in their lives? Have we all led charmed lives?

[lunamagica]

29. They are all about the hate. Stop talking about economic anxiety. It's all about the hate

[Different Drummer]

140. That's it exactly. n/t

[Grassy Knoll]

30. They Look Like They Need Obama Care...Stat..

...They Need To Be Drug Tested Before Their Next Welfare Check$$$. LOL!!

[0rganism]

33. i see dead people

[Grassy Knoll]

34. They Must Be Mad About Showing ID To Buy Frozen Pizza And Pabst Beer...

...

[SCVDem]

72. Hey now!

I happen to like Pabst. I toured the brewery in Milwaukee in 1973 and left for the Marines a week later.

And one for you!

[Quemado]

73. The woman wearing the checkered tablecloth

looks like she could use a six-pack of PBR and a Tombstone pizza.

[smirkymonkey]

36. What a repulsive group of people.

The strange thing is that Trump would never associate with these types of people. He will pander to them, but these are not the people whose approval he really craves. He wants the approval of the NYC Elite and he will never have it. So he has to settle for the worship of the dregs of society. What a sordid little scene going on there.

[Totally Tunsie]

67. Very well put, smirky.

[Honeycombe8]

37. Horrible. Lowlifes. nt

[peacebuzzard]

39. Band of idiots,

I wouldn’t waste a word there.
That poor infant looked miserable and malnourished, as did everyone else.

[JDC]

43. Trash

[miss-nasty]

44. I hope someone notified C. P. S.

That baby is obviously being traumatized.

[gademocrat7]

45. A gathering of angry deplorables.

Shameful behavior.

[madaboutharry]

46. It is sad and horrifying.

That kind of hate takes a lot of ignorance.

It makes me sick just to look at these people behaving in so deplorably.

[Agschmid]

48. At this point this just looks like derangement to me.

There is not other rational explanation anymore, these people are deranged. It’s that simple.

[thegoose]

50. Braindead cult

Following this bloated, lying, conning piece of shit. Off the cliff!

[kysrsoze]

54. I've never seen such a concentration of white trash. Sheesh.

[C_U_L8R]

57. Lemmings.

Hey Trumpstains, say Здравствуйте to your new overlord.

[Persondem]

58. Glad to see many empty seats. Heard about a previous rally for twitler where they had to move

it to a smaller venue and still had a lot of empty seats. K & R

[dflprincess]

60. I thought that was the only bright spot in an otherwise disturbing video too. nt

[bluestarone]

59. SCARY fucking people!!!!!!!!!!

[Javaman]

61. lots and lots of empty seats.

less a rally than a small gathering.

and they will get smaller.

[Glamrock]

62. Few thoughts.

1) Not concerned. I've played gigs in front of far larger crowds than this. What 2000 people? Maybe?
2) I've played gigs outside Tampa. It really is the deep fucking south. A larger collection of inbred, toothless fuckwits I've yet to see. (Apologies to our liberal brothers and sisters in the region.)
3) If this is the size of the crowd he's drawing nowadays, we're fucking golden. Even if this is after the "show" there was what? 5000? Maybe? Phhht.

[SammyWinstonJack]

63. tRUMP wouldn't piss on any one of them if they were on fire. He probably says nasty things about

them, after these rallies are over. Wishing for a Lonesome Rhodes moment.

[MFM008]

98. He LOVED

Hobnobbin with royalty.

[Blue_true]

64. I guess there was one thing to be proud of there. I don't know whether you noticed.

Did you see the Secret Service agents protecting the Press? At least someone from the government is still acting like an American.

[True Blue American]

131. I did notice SS was facing the crowd

Did not connect them protecting the Press. But you are right!

[Blue_true]

136. My hat off to the onsite SS supervisor who saw a problem and had agents near the Press.

Like I said, at least some government people there were being Americans and patriots.

[brush]

66. This low-info idiocy has devolved into a sick cult. Reason for optimism though...

is that only 26% or the population vote for the orange debacle.

[Midnight Writer]

97. Reason for pessimism is that about 45% didn't bother to vote at all.

[brush]

124. True, but if we get a few percentage points of them, and with many trump...

voters showing buyers remorse, I think we have a good chance of taking at least the House in Nov. where we will then have the power to blunt trump's increasingly bizarre moves.

[Totally Tunsie]

68. Wow...really classy group there.

How very sad.

[Sam McGee]

69. Notice all the empty seats

[True Blue American]

132. They all crowded down front to get on the TV.

Really think they are on a Reality show!

[Ponietz]

74. Sick and depraved

[byronius]

75. Cream of the crap crop.

[calimary]

104. Good one, byronius!

“Cream of the crap crop”!

[Ohioboy]

76. These are the kind of people who like the ACA but don't like Obamacare.

There's a lot of stupid in that video.

[ChazInAz]

78. I just thought of something.

If the mayor of Al Capp's Dogpatch had wanted to hold a Nurnburg-style rally, it would look like this.

[certainot]

80. go on the offensive - boycott all advertisers of trump talk radio stations

trump's base is used to hearing limbaugh and sons lies and bigotry UNCHALLENGED by those who disagree and think they're shits - their hate and bigotry is validated and enabled by americans ignoring 1500 radio stations that do that shit all day

[AC_Mem]

81. Couple thoughts (they called me)

I got a robo call last week from 45's daughter in law offering free tickets. I tried to stay on the line to either have a few words with a live person about what I thought about this gathering of fools, but they had it set up where the only thing you could do was enter your phone number to accept the free tickets and then the call ended. I have NO idea how they got my number but I'm dropping the phone line next week - I have had enough of GOP calls when I tell them repeatedly that I am a proud Democrat.

Second thing, about this BOD - its a pro-wrestling crowd, that is the bottom line. These are the people, along with their gleeful rage, who attend pro wrestling events and scream at the "villain" and cheer the "hero" while they beat each other over the head with chairs.

The
Exact
Same
Crowd

I would be ashamed to have this as my base but what can he do? its all he has! And he goes all over the world trying to stir up "villains" to that he can perform for his audience of trailer park wrestling loving fans.

It's all a non-reality show really.

A in Orlando

[underpants]

111. Spot on.

I've been saying that since this all began. He plays "face" (the good guy) and "heel" with some violence (protestors some obviously staged) sprinkled in.

[greatauntoftriplets]

84. Mob mentality, pure and simple.

[BlueStater]

86. My state.

What a fucking embarrassment. I'm so ashamed I live among these people.

[Olafjoy]

88. Just gross!

Such vile, hateful people.
Clicked on the next thread of the little girl giving out burritos to the firefighters. She made me feel better.

[peggysue2]

89. I'm Afraid Acosta is right

The Trumpster encourages and feeds this ignorant display, gins up the crowd with outrage and hate. His constant chants of Fake News, Enemy of the People, Enemy of the State, reporters are bad people, yada, yada is inciting those drunk on the Koolaid to score one for the Boss.

If anything tragic happens, some senseless violence against the press, Donald Trump will share responsibility. He won't accept it, of course, but he'll still be responsible.

Enough is enough! The man deserves to be behind bars, sooner rather than later.

[njhoneybadger]

90. Wow, not exactly a Mensa meeting is it. They want somebody to worship and somebody to hate

[liberalmuse]

95. Why is the media covering these?

They merely serve to stroke Trumps ego, add a negative to the national dialogue and it's not safe for them to be in a room with these hateful inbreds. What's it going to take? A reporter getting hurt or worse?

[riversedge]

99. I fear that soon some reporter will get hurt--or worse.

[lostnfound]

100. So embarrassed for what used to be my beautiful home state

A state that had the Sunshine law and pretty good government in the 60s and 70s.

[yallerdawg]

101. If braindead, ignorant racist pigs turnout to vote...

what more incentive do we need?

[underpants]

105. Okay DU, let's play "Where's Waldo?"

What color shirt did the only non-white person have on?

[Ohiogal]

106. What a bunch of vile, hateful, emboldened idiots

If I were a reporter at one of these "rallies" I would definitely be in fear of my life!

Thanks, Trumpy. Thanks for creating and enflaming this shameful mess. I can't even say mess of humanity because almost all of them don't act like human beings.

[stonecutter357]

109. crisis actors !

[heaven05]

112. not worried

about these herr trump acolytes. Look at the crowd numbers. Just have to let them know, THEY are the true white minority. Some american journalist better watch their asses though. The deranged followers of herr trump can do stupid things beyond the damage that a phone call Becky' do now.

[barbtries]

114. on the plus side,

it looks rather sparsely attended. lot of empty seats there.

aargh. i want to live every day of my life but i just want this nightmare to end.

[sweetroxie]

115. I'm sorry to say this, but these people are white trash.

nt

[workinclasszero]

121. Hey, I am white trash

And the Trump cultists offend me! They are all brainwashed followers of evil IMO.

And traitors to this country to boot!

[True Blue American]

133. Yeah, but you have couth!

Just like me!

[workinclasszero]

137. LOL

Thanks!

[llmart]

126. The dregs of humanity....

all gathered together. How nice.

[zed nada]

127. My fellow history scholars.....

.....Wasn't it in Wrestlemania III in which our own Sgt. Slaughter was defeated by the Iron Sheik? Seems like that video caused me to reminisce.

Just feeling nostalgic for some reason. I wonder if that was when Trump decided to make America great again. Looks like it was a success in Trumpworld. To think that event yesterday happened less than an hour from me, and I sat inside in the dark cringing. Could have met some wonderful people like that fellow American in the red checked outfit obviously indicating that we're number one.....

[Pepsidog]

129. That video is all we need to see. The worst elements of society. Worse than deplorable.

[Vinca]

138. Can you imagine being a person investigating your family history 50 years from now and

uncovering these raving morons in your gene pool? Assuming, of course, the earth is still habitable 50 years from now. Thanks, Don.

[BigOleDummy]

141. And to think.....

…. that these kind of "people" are the ones who "elect" our politicians. smh

[Puzzler]

145. Incredibly dangerous. All or most of them heavily armed

and targeting “The Press”.

Trump is clearly inciting violence. This type of behaviour is illegal in many countries, and the fact that the inciter is the President, makes him a clear danger to the United States itself.

I really don’t know what else I can say. I wish I did.


-Puzzler

[TrumpKnew]

147. WWE Folk.