This is a brave person despite his claim otherwise. I would never have had the courage to mingle with deplorables like he did. I was across town at the Missoula Rises rally to protest the visit of the pResident. I'm sick and sad that my fellow Montanans behaved as described above. I avoid these people like the plague. I too pray for our country. I don't have it in me to pray for tRump's soul. He's on his own with that.

needs to see this.

Amazing person this, Salim Matt Gras.. I was shaking just reading about his personal account of trump's hatemongering fest in Missoula.

while I read the letter. I clicked on the link and looked at the photo of the crowd to see if I recognized anyone in it and felt a wave relief when I did not. This chapter in our history has changed how I interact with my fellow Montanans in general. I will not and cannot tolerate the mindset of these people. This goes further than politics. This speaks to how 30% of our fellow citizens operate in general on the planet. I don't want anything to do with them.

you don't want anything to do with the 30% Cult45. I would avoid them like the plague in my imagination. But, you're right there in the same area.

That Sufi is definitely more forgiving than I am. These days I find myself wishing I believed in Hell, so that my prayers regarding Cheetohlini could be answered.

named Devil Inside:

" . . . Future uncertain, but certainly slight.
Look at the faces,
Listen to the bells,
It's hard to believe we need a place called Hell."

So often, musical lyrics come to me from my subconscious, reminding me that others have thought the same.

A lot of their lyrics were rather profound, I thought.

I don't think praying for his soul would do ay good. He has rejected anything that is not hateful and dark.

As I watch our country's moral presence on the world stage fading away, I am ill to my stomach ( ). I find myself entering into negatives thoughts, but I am continuing to fight this evil cabal with every tool I can still use. I pray for my country every day, and add prayers that new people will run for office who can begin to turn around the destruction that has impacted a country that has progressed since September 17, 1787 when the Constitution was signed. Never will I accept the evil that now lives in our White House.

just this morning that “people aren’t evil, they do bad things but they’re not evil...” I know her heart was in
the right place but I disagree with her. I believe we are dealing with evil here.

and we do have it living in OUR White House. GOTV!!! Take others with you. WE. MUST. WIN. THIS. ELECTION!

Watch “The Brainwashing of My Dad “ Amazon Prime.

It shows how normal people can be turned evil by lying media.

And I don’t think we can turn these people around.

Some are lost to reason, yes.
But the key is to get the deplorablea away front fox and Limbaugh. Talk abt ownership and agenda of Fox.

Faux is not going anywhere.

Trump is a demagogue. Cut out of the same rotten corrupted material as was Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao and a host of evil people throughout history who have risen to power preaching hatred and division. Have we reached that point in history identical to that which was responsible for the destruction of Germany? It is not an exaggeration when anyone who Trump lists as an enemy can become a target for people he has transformed into killers who make and send bombs to destroy them. Maybe it really is too late. If the Democrats prevail in the upcoming elections what will be the reaction of his worshipers?

Kick

Then realized that was a more accurate title.

I think his Hitler rally is tonight, and then tomorrow is Franco.

He's a man who stands passionately for his values. It took a lot of courage to be in that audience, and I applaud him.

And they operate schools that encourage compassion and critical thinking. I'm not surprised that a Sufi and a Quaker were braving that Big Brother event and standing up for higher principles. Both the Clintons and Obamas sent their daughters to a Quaker School.

I had a Mennonite friend who worked in a Mennonite clinic for children prosthetic limbs. When the North Vietnamese tanks rolled by during the takeover they came out waved and went back to their work and stayed a couple of years under the communists.

We shouldn't lump all Christians into the same basket.

It's really not surprising. I've always thought that most of these people are just ordinary folks although I disagree with them politically. But they turn into something dark and dangerous when they listen to an autocratic nationalist full of hate. Trump IS responsible for those mailed bombs. He feeds, and feeds on, the fear and hate simmering below the surface in some people.

Hitler ascendant; that's truly what he is. And we're living through it now; the new age of Donald Trump. We now have the opportunity to be the new "good Germans".

He writes quite well and I would have taken him for a journalist. If that were the case he would have qualified for a journo credential, am I right? But if he chose to attend as a participant and spectator so that explains his banner for Senator Tester.

This must have been a strange evening and Mr. Gras was lucky he didn't end up in the hospital.
Respect to you, Salim Matt Gras! This took a lot of guts.

By the way.

He's going to do whatever he wants. Pig.

for -45 playing their music at his rallies.

I can only imagine what that must have been like for Matt. What a brave person!

I'm not sure that a cease and desist would work. He has received dozens of therm from various artists. Right now, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith is preparing to actually file a lawsuit. His lawyers have been sending cease and desist letters to trmp for some time now and nothing has come of it. trmp has no respect for proprietary law or property. Yet, if someone were to tread upon the trump name, he's be in court by tomorrow morning. It has been a consistent pattern with him.

P/S "Ivanka Trump" is a registered, protected trademark.

Cymerwch ofal, da Syr.

Y Ddraig goch yn codi eto.

You're probably right. He has no respect for the law unless it covers his interest.

Hwyl am y tro!

They are lucky they weren't killed. Seriously.

I too think he was brave to exercise his rights.

But I believe it was paid for by the committee to reelect the idiot-in-chief. Granted public utilities and service people (SS, AF1)were used because of the nature of the event, but I didn’t like it when people said Obamas rallies were paid for by the government. I may be wrong.

Really? Source please.

Bitched about the government having to pay
For Obama’s campaign rallys?

Seriously?

for example, thetylt.com, which doesn't appear to have a RW bias, said the following:

"It's not totally unusual for a sitting president to hold campaign rallies, but Trump has already held 24 rallies since the 2016 election. President Obama had his first post-inaugural rally nearly six months into his presidency, which specifically focused on garnering support for a fellow Democrat's re-election campaign. President Trump's rallies, on the other hand, do not appear to be designed to support other candidates or push specific policy objectives."

So the only rally President Obama attended in the first six months of his presidency was not for himself. Unlike Mango Mussolini, who routinely uses millions of taxpayer dollars for his MAGA lovefests and golf trips.


[link:https://thetylt.com/politics/donald-trump-campaign-rallies-post-election|

I understand. Obama didn’t waste 1/10th of the money the Orange turd is.

Kick

...frightening things I've read. Brave man Mr. Gras.

I was roughed up at a George Bush rally in Tacoma WA on Oct 27, 1988 for expressing my opinion about his tenure as Vice President

Um. No.

Don't pray - vote.

Donate whatever you can, time, money, resources, and GET OUT THE VOTE.

when he wrote of Big Brother's "Two Minute Hate". At least attendance isn't mandatory. Yet.

I suspect the candidate's campaign he is there to support, or the RNC pays for the rally. I do question who pays for the use of AF1.

“You’re seeing the fruits of this angry rhetoric.” So says NY Governor Cuomo just now, being interviewed by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about the horrifying and deeply disturbing domestic terrorism that played out today.

And that is very sadly true. This monster has connected with the monsters within all of us. Some people have little bitty monsters that can be easily suppressed and driven away. Others have boiling, roiling acres of Hell inside, in some cases mere microns below the surface, that are finally being allowed to explode out into the open. They’re tired of being told “that’s not nice” or “be polite!” or “ keep that nasty stuff to yourself” or “if you can’t say anything nice about somebody else, don’t say anything at all”.

Maybe it all started at three years old - hatred and resentment toward Mom when she told you you had to eat those vegetables or you couldn’t hit your sister or you weren’t allowed outside to play til you cleaned up your room. Are these yesterday’s two-year-olds, stomping their little feet and bellowing “nobody is the boss of ME!” except that they’re grown up now and they can drive drunk if they want and load up on all the guns they can eat, or hang that hate rag up in public and heckle black people just trying to mind their own business, and regard every woman they see as a c-word who’s theirs to molest or rape or otherwise degrade.

One thing trump has definitely done is to validate the demons within, and give license to unleash those demons in all the rest of us. It’s not only okay to have those feelings and opinions. You’re allowed, even encouraged, to let your inner monster out to run wild, and run amok all over everyone else. Don’t keep those monsters stifled and corked up anymore. Be out ‘n’ proud of it ALL.

On edit - it just struck me that this is prowhat they mean about “freedom.” They AND their “worse, baser ‘angels’” have been unleashed. Now they’re “free” to be total unrestrained ASSHOLES. Must feel just great to be “liberated” like that, ‘eh? You don’t have to be considerate of anybody else, especially those you oppose or don’t like. Now they have permission and validation from trump. HE’S the one who make it okay to let their demons out into the open.

No wonder they damn near worship him.

I wonder how many evangelicals and so-called "born again Christians" were there at that rally, totally oblivious to his choice of theme song, cheering Trump on?

That guy Salim had a lot of courage to attend, and especially to wave that banner.

These rallies of Trump's, which get scarier and scarier as the midterm elections get nearer and nearer, resemble the political tantrums of a two year old - or of Linda Blair's devil child in The Exorcist as the exorcising priests step up their efforts. Trump's only real hope as these midterms approach is a tsunami of right wing violence to drown out any legitimately elected blue wave that might sweep into congress. And cheating, suppression and violence is all that his morally and politically bankrupt Republican party have to offer the American voter as we go into these midterm elections. Make no mistake about that.

Missoula is a blue island in a red state. I didn't think he'd draw the usual rabid crowd. I was wrong. You were actually thrown out just for having a Tester sign? Wow. Then again, they love the Second Amendment so much they don't bother to read the First.

at taxpayers' expense