The mind numbing vulgarity. The ignorance. The lies. The distillation of the

[cali]

worst of America, it all comes together in one spray tanned, bleached, orange plumed package: The quintessential ugly American in Technicolor: Donald Trump. And nothing showcased this grotesque caricature like his rally yesterday in Charleston, West Virginia. Idiocracy, you got nothing on reality.

In front of a crowd of 13,000, the Donald preened and pontificated. He spoke of his disgust that a beautiful, beautiful product- hair spray with CFCs- had been idiotically removed from the market because of the phony climate change nonsense. He repeatedly instructed West Virginians not to bother voting in their upcoming primary because he'd already won. Never mind that silly down ballot stuff.

He courageously told Paul Ryan that he, the magnificent Trump, wasn't on board with Ryan's Congressional agenda. He promised to bring coal mining back to its glory days. He attacked Hillary Clinton using Monica Lewinsky.

His devoted fans spoke longingly of lynching President Obama on the White House lawn and the good old days.

Corroborating information here:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/05/donald-trump-west-virginia-campaign-rally-election-2016

[scottie55]

1. Trump - Everything Bad About America In One Person

Arrogance
Entitlement
Bigotry
Intolerance

And the list goes on.....

[cali]

2. And on and on and on. Mind boggling and shameful

[Cosmocat]

10. The rat hole the republica. party

Has been leading tbis country down for the last quarter century.

[cali]

11. Trump is a new low.

[Hortensis]

28. Trump has at least personality disorder as some excuse.

What is Mr. Bonecutter's? Thanks for the article. It was...amazing.

Greg Bonecutter Jr, a former nurse on disability from Letart, West Virginia, was an avid Trump supporter wearing a Make America Great Again hat and a shirt that proclaimed “Hillary sucks but not like Monica”.

He was a longtime Trump supporter who supported the nominee because he was someone with whom “you knew where you stood” and was sick “of politicians, big money scams and coverup lies”. A registered independent, he said he thought Obama was “sucking Muslim tail and apologist to terrorist actions” and “if it was up to me we’d bring back public execution and there’d be several trap doors on the White House lawn”. Bonecutter warned darkly that if Clinton was elected there might be another civil war.

[cali]

29. No excuse for Trump or Mr. Bonecutter.

Vile people are just vile.

[Hortensis]

30. Hold that line. :)

[gordianot]

3. American decline what will take its place?

Frankly I do not see any ray clarity on the horizon. I would have used the word "hope" but that word was taken. Even though I was critical over TPP I would take the poor man back in a flash, but he deserves a rest.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. now... Where have I seen this act, before?

Oh, yeah.

[mahina]

13. Who's that guy?

Sorry

[Earth Bound Misfit]

17. An Andy Kaufman character named "Tony Clifton"...perfect analogy IMO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Clifton

[Bluenorthwest]

27. Here is actual Andy as Tony Clifton on the Dinah Shore Show....

[Warren DeMontague]

20. ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Clifton

[democrank]

5. Trump is the media`s ratings-booster vulgarian.

All of them should be ashamed.

[cali]

6. Indeed they should, but watch them now: Full throttle going after trump.

His threats against them ensured that.

[Botany]

7. John Denver is dead, Don

Trump pledged to come back to the Mountain State and praised its state song “Take Me Home
Country Roads” by John Denver as “a great song” by “a friend of mine and good guy”.


BTW Coal is not coming back .... natural gas is cheaper and cleaner.

[dorkzilla]

8. Shameful

Sad to regard our fellow Americans with such disdain but there it is. When I was recently in the British Isles I spent a lot of time listening to total strangers waxing philosophic about America's decline and their puzzlement as to who in their right minds could support this buffoon. Right minds indeed.

Good to see you back, Cali.

[cali]

9. Thanks, dz. Yeah, I feel a twinge of guilt about the contempt I feel for these.... people

But then I think about what they support and their bigotry and it vanishes.

[mahina]

12. Yikes,

Bleh.

[DAngelo136]

14. Somehow...

I'm reminded of the closing scene from "Cabaret".

[HereSince1628]

15. Trump isn't the problem, that he draws a crowd of 13000 -is- the problem

Seems like some politicians somewhere left problems to fester too long.

Those Trump supporters are taking down the republican party.

Watching Dems poised to rush in to 'the opportunity' being created is unnerving.

It's like watching people seriously contemplate rushing in to save obsolete farm machinery from a barn with its hay mow fully in flame, when the job is about saving the house

[cali]

16. It's all entwined. That's like saying Hitler wasn't the problem

Or that the person who flicks a lit cigarette butt into a pool of gasoline isn't the problem.

[HereSince1628]

21. Yep, arson involves oxygen, fuel and an ignition source, and you know...arsonists

The problem is the living breathing mass of voters with intent who promoted the assembly of the components and willing set ablaze what was the republican party.

Lightening fires are complex too...and they require all the same classes of components, except, the human element.

[ewagner]

19. 100% Right

Movements are born of anger...raised on frustration of impotence...and, finally, matured in absolute, unreasoning, magical thinking, hero worshiping rage....(see Eric Hoffer's The True Believer)

We need to find a way of directing that rage in another manner....that's the challenge to the Democratic Party

[Maru Kitteh]

18. It's not funny anymore.

I know many of us found amusement, perhaps nervous amusement, in the candidacy of Mr. Trump.

It's simply not funny any more.

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

* The enthusiastic support of the KKK because "what he believes, we believe in."
* His hatred and vile verbal assaults against women.
* The reduction of all women to body parts and appearance
* Birther fuckwittery
* Vaccine fuckwittery
* 911 Truther fuckwittery
* Mexicans are rapists
* His strong predilection and admiration for fascism
* Says he is interested in "closing that Internet up in some ways," "Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.'"
* This guy with the nuke codes
* This guy with the SCOTUS picks
* This guy with CIA briefings

There is no punchline. It just cannot be allowed to happen.

[malaise]

22. Down memory lane - we nailed the scumbag in July

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026939806

[cali]

23. Yep. It can't be said too often.

[malaise]

25. Agreed n/t

[Katashi_itto]

24. America The Beautiful.

[Califonz]

26. Americans always did like a good freak show

and tv clowns who tell funny stories and joke around. The GOP just takes advantage.

[LuvLoogie]

31. He reminds me of a 1970s Vegas stand-up act without the jokes.

All set-up and no punchline.

[sorefeet]

32. He is a pervert

if you swoon over your daughter you are a pervert. Then to say it publicly???

[cali]

33. Yeah, sick shit.

[cali]

34. Kick

[felix_numinous]

35. Trump is poison

I've said continuously that he should actually be seen as a domestic threat.