2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Clinton campaign set the most brilliant trap ever for the cheeto faced shitgibbon.
All they did was have Muslim Gold Star Parents speak from the stage of the Democratic National Convention.
They didn't approve the speech because there was no formally written speech. They simply let this family say whatever they wanted to say.
Then they simply sat back and let the witless fucking cocksplat do himself in like nobody else ever could.
They read the ferret wearing cockwomble like a book and then played him like a violin.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)John Poet
(2,510 posts)liberalla
(9,131 posts)tavernier
(12,299 posts)The man went to college???
dflprincess
(28,042 posts)Beartracks
(12,754 posts)Believe me!
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InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,103 posts)John Poet
(2,510 posts)the GOP's down-ticket candidates....
Trump is the great big "lose cannon"!
JHB
(37,122 posts)GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)lastlib
(22,895 posts)Notice they're kinda orange-ish and have very tiny, um, appendages? (I think the GOP has a instict for a nominee.......)
The roach has bigger hands
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)onecent
(6,096 posts)I am LOVING IT!!!!
mobeau69
(11,033 posts)Johnny2X2X
(18,634 posts)There were many here that predicted exactly this when the Khans gave their speech.
It was a devastating speech and Donald is incapable of not responding.
ailsagirl
(22,833 posts)In other words, HE CAN'T KEEP HIS FAT MOUTH SHUT!!
LittleGirl
(8,247 posts)TeamPooka
(24,123 posts)not what you want in a President.
ailsagirl
(22,833 posts)He acts just like one. Seriously.
The man who ghost-wrote dumdum's autobiography (more irony) described him as "a black hole" and "extremely damaged." (This was on Lawrence O'Donnell's program yesterday.) Unfortunately, he didn't continue because it's not as if dumdum was raised in an abusive family (to my knowledge), but something had to have screwed him up so badly that he's remained a spoiled, frightened little kid.
Not trying to psychoanalyze him-- I leave that to the professionals-- but I couldn't help wondering what made him what he is today.
mrmpa
(4,033 posts)disrespecting 6 year olds.
Ilsa
(61,656 posts)He seems stuck in his teens, at most.
underpants
(182,064 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,702 posts)Never attribute to elaborate planning what best can be attributed to serendipity.
I don't think anybody could have predicted Trump's response.
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)...one of them would get this sort of reaction from Trump. A shoot-himself-in-the-foot reaction that would get a lot of people to turn on him. Mr. Khan's speech was the one that did it. But it could have been almost any other of those speakers. Like the Mothers of the Movement, or General Allen. It wasn't un-hoped-for, and therefore "planned," but that is was Mr. & Mrs. Khan's that did it was serendipity.
Though I will give Clinton's campaign this much credit for"setting a trap"--they put the Khans on the last night when the most people would be watching and waiting for Clinton. They were given a prime spot to say what they wanted to say. That, however, is as much to the DNC's integrity as to their calculation. Trump cast Muslims as the ultimate boogeyman in his scare-fest. It was only right that the Clinton's campaign give Muslims a chance--a really good chance--to counter all that.
And it is to the intergrity of the Clinton Campagin and the DNC that they let the Khans express their message their way. Mr. & Mrs. Khan--like their son, God rest him--have risked a lot to save us all.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)call themselves Republicans. I know of one who does not even want to eat Middle Eastern food, perhaps she thinks it will allow her to like the food and therefore she would not be able to hate Muslims. The hate talk from the talk shows, shameful.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,127 posts)still_one
(91,807 posts)educate Americans that there are Americans who are Muslim, who have fought and are fighting and dying for the United States of America
Just sometimes speaking from the heart is more powerful than any prepared words could ever be.
still_one
(91,807 posts)just like us
randr
(12,408 posts)hamsterjill
(15,198 posts)It was done to "revive the heart of our democracy"!!!!
I loved the Rev. Dr.'s speech!
raven mad
(4,940 posts)He is so going to lose.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)He f*cking deserves to be played like that.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)That would be my advice.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Trump is happy when he is in the news and people are talking about him, whether it is positive or negative.
RonniePudding
(889 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)He went up in the polls after that. Among Republicans!
alfredo
(60,062 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)The tea baggers are already going after Khan with a bunch of BS.
alfredo
(60,062 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)between their Muslim hate and their military worship. They go on about why don't the muslims condemn terrorism, here a Muslim American died fighting in when the armchair warriors did not.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)He just can't resist digging himself deeper.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)There are heroes that walk among us, folks.
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)Love your use of the Scottish tweets!
Laser102
(816 posts)Satch59
(1,353 posts)We should have a thread of all the descriptions of him...endless...
And you are right..besides being one of the many heartbreaking moments of the convention, just their presence visually, underscored everything wrong about him and his racist supporters.
getagrip_already
(14,082 posts)I hope and hope and hope, but he is aiming for a very slim alley to win, and it is completely out of our hands except for gotv efforts.
He is clearly banking on turning out enough haters, most of whom don't vote very often, to push him over the top in electoral college votes. To do that he has to run the table on a few states usually in the d column.
Dems have zero chance to swing those voters. If they vote, it will only be for Trump. The only chance is to demotivate them (unlikely) and gotv.
jcgoldie
(11,566 posts)He's too arrogant and ignorant to organize any sort of gotv effort. His base are poor people who are probably almost as unlikely as many poor people of color to vote unless you have some organization and a plan to get them to the polls. He seems to not care about that at all and the only people smart enough to help him in those areas are horrified by him.
calimary
(80,522 posts)Mrs. Khan is a Gold Star Mother. And he starts picking on her. He had the gall to claim HE'S made sacrifices too????????
The Khans have made a bigger sacrifice than Donald Trump can ever even conceive in his little pea-sized lizard brain. Tony Schwartz, who ghost-wrote "The Art of the Deal", has described him as a "very damaged" human being, indeed, literally "a black hole."
On edit - I'm watching Mr. Khan emotionally defending his wife on CNN's "State of the Union" as I write this. He goes further - saying Trump has "a black soul."
BOTH he and Tony Schwartz just nail it. And nail it. And nail it. And KEEP nailing it.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)AllyCat
(15,987 posts)liberalmuse
(18,670 posts)To even imagine the Dumpster's and his supporters hate being directed towards them makes me ill. They don't deserve this. I won't even read the comments under these articles. Heaven help their vile, hate-filled souls. I really believe if you direct your hate and vitriol towards a good person, it will come right back to you big time (the hate directed towards President Obama, the Khans, etc.).
GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)I saw a couple torn apart by the death of their beloved son. As a parent myself, I cannot imagine the pain of losing a child. Their courage in appearing before a huge crowd on national television was nothing short of amazing. It is so telling that the only way Trump could view this was through the lens of his hatred for Muslims... my god, what a psychopath he is.
catbyte
(34,123 posts)If Trump had just ignored the speech & not said anything, it wouldn't have had 1/10 the impact it's having now. However, by Trump's childish, narcissistic, and arrogant responses to it, it's is reinforcing the perception that Trump is a thin-skinned bigot who doesn't possess the temperament necessary to be president--just like the 47% speech reinforced the perception that Romney was a completely out of touch, tone deaf 1%er.
It won't matter a whit to Trump's bigoted base, but I think this has sunk him with the undecided voters.
bucolic_frolic
(42,479 posts)Inviting Putin to release HRC's emails
Obama's barn burner of a speech
Then Mr. and Mrs. Kahn who evoke empathy in all normal people
And HRC's speech which was a stark contrast to the biased vitriol of the right
In fact it was a golden week for Democrats
May there be many many more
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)These comments blunted any momentum they may have had, turning their campaign into anti-opposition campaigns instead of pro-candidate campaigns.
AliceSsquare
(12 posts)Trump is running as a right wing comment section which apparently is the key to winning primaries. But after we take the senate, house and presidency, i will celebrate quite loudly.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)But we can hope for a clean sweep.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,606 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)LakeArenal
(28,673 posts)TRAP? I hope not. Who would want to make these parents another victim of Donald Trump? These folks are suffering. If it is a trap, just who is exploiting the military for political gain. They aren't public figures. They are hurt for their son and now we use them as Tumpbait? I hope not.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)So is testicle shitting rectal wart!
LakeArenal
(28,673 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)A very calm take down.
Who can claim that this is anything else than a remembrance of their son?
View it again.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)mangled apricot hellbeast.
"spoon" was good too.
klook
(12,131 posts)"You tit."
Also, my personal favorite line: "Who is using the Trump family brain cell today?"
C Moon
(12,182 posts)uponit7771
(90,193 posts)TeamPooka
(24,123 posts)C Moon
(12,182 posts)There are so many closet Trump supporters. Just like those who say they are "fiscal conservatives."
They know deep down they should not be supporting the GOP, but they reword it so they don't feel so bad.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Such a smart beautiful being... But keep the noun please.. It fits perfectly..
LostinRed
(840 posts)The DNC allowed two Muslim Americans with a child killed in a war, a fallen solider, to speak personally and unapologetically. Trump who used a shin split to avoid war doesn't nor will ever understand the sacrifice these parents made. He walked right into it because he is a schmuck.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)walked right into it!
Akamai
(1,779 posts)cab67
(2,946 posts)They would have all seen what happened when Ted Cruz went off-message during the RNC the previous week, and would have been very interested in making sure it didn't happen in Philadelphia.
Allowing Mr. Khan to speak for himself, and not from a script, made his speech all the more powerful.
Loki
(3,825 posts)Moh, you do have a way with words.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)Iggo
(47,470 posts)BadGimp
(4,008 posts)I'm in stitches!
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Brexit meanderings while he was in Scotland
http://globalnews.ca/news/2787023/donald-trump-gets-social-media-thrashing-for-scottish-brexit-tweet/
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)That presentation and the context, strikes me as having been INCREDIBLY damaging to Trump and his narrative.
The other thing that I think is hurting him, is reminding people how he continually stiffs the people who work for him.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Always let your opponent destroy himself.
stopwastingmymoney
(2,025 posts)(Respect to gibbons)
JCMach1
(27,540 posts)Cha
(295,543 posts)with big twittering mouth.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)I know personally several internationally renowned concert violinists and I am sure they would take umbrage.
However, with the exception of the violin thingy, this is probably the first time I have ever agreed with anything you have said on DU.
So, perhaps things are looking up.
PS, And please do not edit to say' played him like a cellist', or pianist, because I know a few of those also.
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)All I can imagine is this now
George II
(67,782 posts)quaker bill
(8,222 posts)I am sure she was given that line, but it should be read as part of a political strategy.
In short, don't for a moment think this episode ends it. Once the interest in this one simmers down, the next one will be ready to deploy.
Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)Annnnnd, got a like from me. Witless cocksplat, what goodie!. Reminds me of an old Navy saying, " Wasn't worth a bucketful of Russian mopfuck."
bucolic_frolic
(42,479 posts)has anyone been looking at their bags of Cheetos for
Jesus or Trump look-alikes?
After so much discussion someone usually finds an image in something
or other and tries to sell it on eBay.
Gotta be a Cheeto Jesus somewhere
Gman
(24,780 posts)"Honey, let's do a cocksplat!"