Rebecca Traister on the Boos / Lock Him Up chant: "thank that crowd"

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Rebecca Traister @rtraister

I’m of the opinion that masses of people booing the president on one of the stupidly few occasions he’s ever been forced to interact with them is in fact an extremely valuable moment for our global standing & anyone who cares about America’s reputation should thank that crowd.

9:01 AM - Oct 28, 2019

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. Thank you , crowd!

You said it so well!

[spanone]

2. K&R...👍🏼

[oasis]

3. This is what democracy looks like.

[Skidmore]

4. Kinda think that crowds

everywhere should have such moments and tape them. Put them on the fool's Twitter feed so he understands that millions of people feel the same way, not just isolated hecklers.

[SergeStorms]

12. The MAGAts should be exposed...

to what normal people think of the Liar-in Chief as well. It might open their eyes to the fact that they're not the majority of Americans, and that their love of Trump is not reflected in spontaneous gatherings of normal people.

Nah.....if it's one thing Trump and the MAGAts can do it's to create their own separate reality, where facts or truth are never allowed to permeate their fascist utopian bubble.

[lastlib]

34. MAGAts are impervious to reality--that's why they're MAGAts.

eom

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. Thank you crowd

[Scarsdale]

6. He probably includes the crowd

in his description of "human scum" like he calls the diplomat who is telling the truth about the quid pro quo (blackmail). If he wants "human scum" all he has to do is look around the WH at his enablers. All busy helping him destroy the USA.

[Farmer-Rick]

16. Thanks for calling it blackmail, I thought I was the only one.

[lagomorph777]

30. I've seen many people labeling Trump's extortion as "bribery."

It's "bribery" in the same way that getting mugged is a "purchase" of my continued living existence.

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. She is not wrong.

[Moral Compass]

8. Full agreement!

This wasn’t one of Trump’s Nuremberg rallies where his staff had chant leaders salted throughout the crowd.

This was a spontaneous expression by the people of their hatred and disdain for a faux leader.

[2naSalit]

9. K&R

[sarge43]

10. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Ya done good.

[LiberalFighter]

11. Should be a strong indicator that more people support impeachment.

[Blue_Tires]

13. Any pundit/journalist who are "utterly shocked"

at this "lack of respect for the highest office" need to be fucking fired for being so out-of-touch

[Farmer-Rick]

14. When crowds started booing W the GOP lost the next big election.

Despite the vote rigging, the Dems won by a landslide. The booing of W at the Washington Nationals home game began in June 2008 and even lasted thru to their appearance at Obama's Inauguration. (Can you believe that some people felt sorry for these 2 torturers when they got booed?) Booing is the sound of the RepubliCON party losing it all.

This does not bode well for the GOP retaining their authoritarian control over our federal government.

[tavernier]

36. I remember ppl feeling sorry for them, yes.

But I haven’t heard ONE word about anyone feeling sorry for Rump. Folks generally get a bit squeamish when booing a person present, but no one was squeamish in that crowd! And I believe those results would repeat in many cities around the country. I think it bodes well for the next election.

[Fritz Walter]

15. "The people are revolting!"

That gag-line appears at 1:30, but it's worth watching the whole clip.

[sarge43]

18. I like the one from Dragonheart

"M'lord, the peasants are revolting!"

"They're always revolting; now they're rebelling."

[c-rational]

17. Thank you for that Tweet. Important point, one of the stupidly few occasions the dumpster

interacts with the people. Also, the press corps should shut down the helicopter interviews if they were real journalists instead of allowing this con man to use media tools to his advantage. They should simply use the helicopter as a backdrop and report on his missives and the fact that he will not engage in a proper presidential fashion.

[bigbrother05]

19. Waiting for pResident Snowflake to declare he's moving the Capitol to Doral

Mulvany will cite the OMB study that compared 10 locations and Doral was far and away a better location to host the Federal Government with "beautiful venues" for all the important agencies where "real American" people live.

[RudyColludie]

20. Lock him up!

It's Biden Time!



Vote Joe or Trump won't Go!

[usaf-vet]

21. Thank You Crowd! Thank you for speaking for me and all of us who can get close enough to Boo! Chant!

LOCK HIM UP. @LHU @LHU @LHU @LHU @LHU @LHU @LHU @LHU @LHU

[Texin]

22. The Resident needs to be exposed to more REAL crowds and fewer Potemkin villagers.

This guy has been carefully "minded" by his asylum orderlies to the effect that he goes around in a bubble. Everything is carefully stage managed to keep his fragile but monumental ego fluffed and unexposed to the growing number of real Americans who grew tired or him years ago and who are unafraid to give him their best Bronx cheers. It was also a good object lesson to his cadre of sycophants attending him, they of the retrumplican sit-in fools last week.

[Collimator]

38. Excellent reference to Russian history.

Not everyone might understand that Potemkin villages are basically Hollywood set pieces that are all show (or fascade, really) and no substance or depth behind them.

[SWBTATTReg]

23. Rebecca Traister is correct/right in saying that the world saw this crowd's reaction when rump...

showed up and also more importantly, perhaps the struggling republicans in Congress who still support rump. By now, they can't put their heads in the sand, can't deny the hatred of most common day Americans for the ghoulish and hateful acts of this incompetent, so called president...

Thank you CROWD!!!!

[catbyte]

24. And that thing can't claim that the crowd was "riff-raff." People who can score World Series

tickets are well-to-do and from the looks of it, the majority of the crowd was white. Whoopsie.

[The Polack MSgt]

31. Glad I read 1st for a change, I almost cloned your post - This is an important point

When I argue with my Trumpster relatives and show percentages of the population I am guaranteed to hear "Of course the welfare bums are against him" or some such drivel.

Well, having the expendable cash to buy World Series ticket is a solid dividing wall between the "real Americans" that my Uncles and Cousins believe they represent and the "Takers and leaches Democrats pander to".

[Wednesdays]

35. Well, Abbie Huntsman on The View

dismissed the booing crowd as "just the Washington swamp." And no one really called her on that.

[oldsoftie]

41. I knew that would be the take; "what do you expect, its the swamp"

[betsuni]

48. It was Meghan who first said it's "the middle of the Washington D.C. swamp."

Then Abby repeated it, "we're in the swamp, we want people to hate us" and Whoopi said, no, she was in D.C. that day and the crowd going to the game was extremely diverse. Sunny Hostin said no, the chants came not from the expensive seats but from the upper seats, the ones she sat in as a kid. Even Meghan said that Trump's "lock her up" made it fine to say "lock him up." She also said Trump was wrong to thank Russia first.

[McKim]

45. Great Point!

Great point, this was an elite crowd of mostly white people. I think it scared the Republicans with a dose of reality.

[gopiscrap]

25. I wish I had more than one recommend for this post!!!

I totally agree. Last year when we were in Europe and Africa, every where we went we had to listen to how stupid the US electorate is and how corrupt this administration is.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. I'm surprised Fat Nixon hasn't farted forth a tweet

claiming either that the boos were cheers, or that the booing was done by angry Democrats who were bussed in for that very purpose, paid for by George Soros.

[IronLionZion]

28. He'll punish DC somehow

as if we weren't already punished enough by his presence, he'll screw over our economy or destroy our infrastructure or something out of spite.

[MustLoveBeagles]

44. The crowd wasn't booing. They were saying Boo-urns

[NCjack]

27. He won't appearing before a non-MAGAt crowd again.

Boo! Lock'm up!

[Lunch Lady]

29. Thank you, Nats fans!

[Docreed2003]

32. +1

Thank you to the crowd! Here's hoping for more public venues to do the same!

[homegirl]

33. More Tha All the Polls!!!

I cannot help but think that the boos at the World Series game mean more...
than all the polls in the world.

[lunatica]

37. Life looks very different in the real world

And yes, thank you real crowd! Trump finally sees what everyone else outside his MAGAT base bubble thinks of him. I hope it twisted his gut hard.

[FakeNoose]

42. Funny thing is, they were all wearing red hats

... but they weren't cheering for Chump!

[Skittles]

39. THANK YOU

that's what I thought too: GOOD, THE REST OF THE WORLD CAN SEE AMERICA IS NOT ONE BIG GIANT TRUMP HATE RALLY

[stuffmatters]

40. "DC deserves statehood for this " Robert Love,Oct 28, 2019

Daily Kos cited this tweet yesterday. I love,love it.

[Blue Owl]

43. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

LOCK HIM UP!!!

[Myrddin]

46. Couldn't agree more. n/t

[calimary]

47. A BIG Thank You to that crowd!

The biggest Thank You! You all restored my faith that we’re NOT a nation of Deplorables!

LOCK HIM UP!!!

Extra thanks also to the folks who hung the big IMPEACH TRUMP banner where he could see it!