2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI just saw Don Lemon interview the sheriff who'll speak at the GOP convention, and Oh. My. God.
Lemon had to cut to a commercial at one point to try to get control of the salivating rant. He is one of the most horrifying, virulently anti-black black people I have ever seen. To his credit Lemon tried hard to make him answer any question or have any conversation but he was a madman. If he's anything like that at the convention he's going to shock the hell out of anyone who's not an absolute extremist. Here's his info:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/trump-invites-anti-government-extremist-sheriff-speak-gop-convention
chillfactor
(7,592 posts)of human flesh on this asshat of a sheriff....no wonder he is a speaker at the hate-filled rethug convention.
riversedge
(70,465 posts)at a Trump convention.
Yallow
(1,926 posts)Imagine being "stopped" buy this asshole......
No wonder we have problems.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the people of Milwaukee, but this is not good for the GOP. Conservative indies left the party to dissociate from this stuff.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)He won a national recognition this past spring as America's outstanding law enforcement officer, as judged by other law enforcement officers. As the GOP is the law and order party Clarke is perfect for their convention.
The public persona he promotes for himself is that of a self-aggrandizing tough talking gun-slinger.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)worried minorities rally around some forceful character who promises draconian measures to lower crime in their neighborhoods. Is that part of what's happening here? Large numbers of minority Democrats, of course, are conservatives who have no conservative party to join.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)right-winger, mostly social conservatives, religious and not. He will fit right in with today's Republican Party because the exodus from the party has left this type fairly concentrated in it, but he will disgust the larger part of the right wing who are repelled by genuine racial and other extreme nastiness.
More benign conservatives have been voting with the nasty conservatives, of course, but they keep getting battered with message after message telling them their natural political cohesiveness is problematic. Slow learners, slow to accept unflattering views of themselves, slow to change their ways. Conservative.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)be 'benign' while their votes are nasty. Voter is defined by the vote. They can't both have and eat the nasty cake.
Raster
(20,998 posts)Pour some sugar on me
Ooh in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
Ooh I can't get enough
I'm hot, sticky sweet
From my head to my feet, yeah
citood
(550 posts)nolabear
(42,006 posts)Don Lemon even said toward the end that he understood how much stress he must be under, maybe trying to soften the appearance of actual hysteria.
gabeana
(3,166 posts)citood
(550 posts)applegrove
(118,931 posts)better policing. What type of Sheriff doesn't? I mean a study will show that police are underpaid and untrained and communities too poor. And a whole host of ideas will be tried. How could anyone on either side be against looking into it..... unless of course you are the GOP trying to maintain your wedge issues.
Initech
(100,150 posts)glennward
(989 posts)what happens to him when he is stopped by police. He doesn't understand that he would be brutalized and treated like most black men are ...maybe even shot in the head. These black-hating blacks make me sick to my stomach.
I, for one, will not be watching any of the RNC hate-fest. My heart and my head can't take it.
generalwoody
(6 posts)chillfactor
(7,592 posts)the comments on twitter make me sick to my stomach....people ACTUALLY support that madman,,,,,,
nolabear
(42,006 posts)Yeah, those tweets about how great he was are not surprising but you kind of hope those people don't exist.
Kingofalldems
(38,514 posts)Looks like a right wing site though.
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)And he might hate being black. If he really believes that a bunch of ignorant racists view him as anything other than another black person, he's incredibly stupid. Trump probably laughs at him.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... dime store trinkets on his chest? Seriously. Who could take him serious? Look it... he's as crazy as Trump himself. No telling how much they're paying him too. He's a damn good actor. Bet he has bodyguards. I thought he was going to take Don Lemon out right there on the set! Shame on CNN for putting him on. Send him back to Fox, for dog's sake.
StrictlyRockers
(3,861 posts)He's scary af. I'm sorry the chickens are coming home to roost, sir. Maybe stop ranting and spouting your hate-filled ideology while you try to paint a peaceful movement as "a hate-filled ideology".
Don was right, we don't know if this had anything to do with BLM, and by the way he shot a BLACK MAN who was a cop!!
musicblind
(4,486 posts)for making a complete and utter fool of himself.
Boudica the Lyoness
(2,899 posts)"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King, Jr.
nolabear
(42,006 posts)As for me, I mention his race because it's calculated to have him there and it seems the desire for that kind of wedge-driving supersedes any caution about how shockingly virulent his rage was. I'm really curious about how tonight's speech will go.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)These are two people who like being big fish in a small pond...