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highplainsdem

(48,993 posts) Mon Jun 1, 2020, 07:46 PM Jun 2020

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Steve Schmidt: Watching Trump preen in front of St. John's, moments after he threatened to deploy

the American military against the American people, with a bible held above his head, I remembered this quote, “when facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross”

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Steve Schmidt: Watching Trump preen in front of St. John's, moments after he threatened to deploy (Original Post) highplainsdem Jun 2020 OP

K&R Solomon Jun 2020 #1

:) Schmidt is very good. Glad we're on the same side. Hortensis Jun 2020 #2

Sen. Kamala Harris on Cuomo Prime Time and said 'tЯump used the bible as a 'prop' today. 👍 sprinkleeninow Jun 2020 #17

Sen Harris also Tweeted this yesterday.. Cha Jun 2020 #31

utter sickness is on display... sprinkleeninow Jun 2020 #37

L💚VE to you and yours... Too, Sprink! Cha Jun 2020 #40

An awful lot of us thought the same thing, Mr Schmidt Maeve Jun 2020 #3

Hey, EarlG -- we need a poster to go with this occasion ! nt eppur_se_muova Jun 2020 #4

I'm not sure, MyOwnPeace Jun 2020 #28

Not quite the same, but a real winner ! nt eppur_se_muova Jun 2020 #35

Thank you, Steve Schmidt Hekate Jun 2020 #5

The arrogant affected head-bobbing and voice intonations make me sick to my stomach Backseat Driver Jun 2020 #6

How can Schmidt have such perfect words? Cicada Jun 2020 #7

Guilt More_Cowbell Jun 2020 #11

Thank you. Some of the boot licking on here of people who had no qualms about being professional BamaRefugee Jun 2020 #12

Would you rather have him on the other side?!?! Squidly Jun 2020 #25

After McCain selected Palin The Wizard Jun 2020 #24

He's quoting a famous author (Sinclair Lewis). nt tblue37 Jun 2020 #16

Actually, Dark n Stormy Knight Jun 2020 #32

He's an amazing wordsmith lunatica Jun 2020 #20

Wrapped in the flag/humping a flag Dagstead Bumwood Jun 2020 #8

sexually assaulting a flag..... lastlib Jun 2020 #26

Schmidt is quoting Sinclair Lewis. ananda Jun 2020 #9

Comes? It's already here. paleotn Jun 2020 #10

Isn't there a commandment "Thou shalt not fuck a porn star"? edbermac Jun 2020 #13

Military dictatorship will unleash the brown shirts bucolic_frolic Jun 2020 #14

They will be MAGA deputies or some such crap, but yeah I think that's coming Evolve Dammit Jun 2020 #22

The Beer-belly Brownshirts? lastlib Jun 2020 #27

Pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth walk into a church Blue Owl Jun 2020 #15

K&R! gademocrat7 Jun 2020 #18

So the question of the day is: What did Trump snort to get his ego out of the basement? Ford_Prefect Jun 2020 #19

I am outraged': Bishop overseeing church responds to Trump photo-op BrightKnight Jun 2020 #21

I thought of that quote when I woke up this morning. Also, "Dude, where's my country?" Evolve Dammit Jun 2020 #23

And the reason for the fascist Posing: he was upset over news coverage of his bunker dive. Ford_Prefect Jun 2020 #29

Exactly the right quote to blast out with BLOTUS' Cha Jun 2020 #30

Great quote, but no evidence supports the common attribution to Sinclair Lewis. Dark n Stormy Knight Jun 2020 #33

I think we have now seen what will be happening on November 4th... Mazeltov Cocktail Jun 2020 #34

This is not Sinclair Lewis peoli Jun 2020 #36

I remembered it, too rocktivity Jun 2020 #38

PM kick rocktivity Jun 2020 #39

Solomon

(12,310 posts)

1. K&R

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 07:49 PM

Jun 2020

I could use a good Steve Schmidt rant right now. I hope somebody interviews him soon.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

2. :) Schmidt is very good. Glad we're on the same side.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 07:51 PM

Jun 2020

Preen, threatened, military against the people, sacrilegious use of the Bible, fascism.

Wrapping that extremely famous quote around Trump.

sprinkleeninow

(20,249 posts)

17. Sen. Kamala Harris on Cuomo Prime Time and said 'tЯump used the bible as a 'prop' today. 👍

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 09:43 PM

Jun 2020

Cha

(297,275 posts)

31. Sen Harris also Tweeted this yesterday..

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Reply #17)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 03:34 PM

Jun 2020

Link to tweet

sprinkleeninow

(20,249 posts)

37. utter sickness is on display...

Reply to Cha (Reply #31)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 06:33 PM

Jun 2020

offensive self-serving vainglory from hoaxy fake leader

if Kamala's not the no. 1 viable for the VP, then i'm disappointed somewhat

some don't want her to lose the senatorial seat

i just know that what is meant to be shall transpire

L💚VE to you and yours...

[green heart symbolizing renewal]

🙏🦋🐦🦆🌈💰

Cha

(297,275 posts)

40. L💚VE to you and yours... Too, Sprink!

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Reply #37)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 07:55 PM

Jun 2020

Wonderful thought about the green heart symbolizing renewal. I shall implement that when I'm texting.. Mahalo!

And, "hoaxy fake leader is Perfect for BLOTUS.. the Hell Monster!

I like Kamala, too.. it won't be long before we find out who Biden will choose.

Maeve

(42,282 posts)

3. An awful lot of us thought the same thing, Mr Schmidt

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 07:53 PM

Jun 2020

eppur_se_muova

(36,264 posts)

4. Hey, EarlG -- we need a poster to go with this occasion ! nt

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:01 PM

Jun 2020

MyOwnPeace

(16,927 posts)

28. I'm not sure,

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #4)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 11:23 AM

Jun 2020

this "might" be it:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213527354

eppur_se_muova

(36,264 posts)

35. Not quite the same, but a real winner ! nt

Reply to MyOwnPeace (Reply #28)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 04:56 PM

Jun 2020

Hekate

(90,708 posts)

5. Thank you, Steve Schmidt

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:02 PM

Jun 2020

Backseat Driver

(4,392 posts)

6. The arrogant affected head-bobbing and voice intonations make me sick to my stomach

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:12 PM

Jun 2020

His lack to recognize the worth and value of humanity makes me sick

His cowardice to defend, yes defend, our constitution abetted by his "good people" make me sick.

His needy, self-pity are endless!

How can he remain; we cannot long endure!

Cicada

(4,533 posts)

7. How can Schmidt have such perfect words?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:16 PM

Jun 2020

I have known some very smart people. A Rhodes scholar heading a major think tank. A person who had record law school grades by a gap above the previous record, who clerked at the Supreme Court, heads of national academic associations. But I never met anyone as skilled as Schmidt at soaring, perfect political rhetoric.

More_Cowbell

(2,191 posts)

11. Guilt

Reply to Cicada (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 09:00 PM

Jun 2020

He, like Nicolle Wallace, was a big part of the introduction of ignorance and incivility into political campaigns, bringing Palin into the McCain campaign.

BamaRefugee

(3,483 posts)

12. Thank you. Some of the boot licking on here of people who had no qualms about being professional

Reply to More_Cowbell (Reply #11)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 09:17 PM

Jun 2020

Republicans for years and years really irks me.

Squidly

(783 posts)

25. Would you rather have him on the other side?!?!

Reply to BamaRefugee (Reply #12)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 09:57 AM

Jun 2020

You can jump all over him and others after this fight is over for their sins of the past. Right now we need every voice we can get no matter where it comes from. I would even welcome demons from hell if they could help us defeat the orange menace.

The Wizard

(12,545 posts)

24. After McCain selected Palin

Reply to More_Cowbell (Reply #11)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 08:52 AM

Jun 2020

Schmidt walked out of an interview with her and said "She knows nothing."

tblue37

(65,393 posts)

16. He's quoting a famous author (Sinclair Lewis). nt

Reply to Cicada (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 09:37 PM

Jun 2020

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)

32. Actually,

Reply to tblue37 (Reply #16)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 04:08 PM

Jun 2020

probably not. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sinclair-lewis-on-fascism/

lunatica

(53,410 posts)

20. He's an amazing wordsmith

Reply to Cicada (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 10:27 PM

Jun 2020

And he does it on the fly. I love words so I could just listen quietly to him Go on and on.

Dagstead Bumwood

(3,641 posts)

8. Wrapped in the flag/humping a flag

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:20 PM

Jun 2020

same difference.

lastlib

(23,239 posts)

26. sexually assaulting a flag.....

Reply to Dagstead Bumwood (Reply #8)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 11:12 AM

Jun 2020

When I saw him do that, I observed that the American flag was going to join the #MeToo movement.

ananda

(28,865 posts)

9. Schmidt is quoting Sinclair Lewis.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:21 PM

Jun 2020

Wow!

paleotn

(17,920 posts)

10. Comes? It's already here.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:49 PM

Jun 2020

edbermac

(15,940 posts)

13. Isn't there a commandment "Thou shalt not fuck a porn star"?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 09:20 PM

Jun 2020

Asking for a friend.

bucolic_frolic

(43,173 posts)

14. Military dictatorship will unleash the brown shirts

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 09:21 PM

Jun 2020

with their 2A rights that Trump is bragging about.

Evolve Dammit

(16,736 posts)

22. They will be MAGA deputies or some such crap, but yeah I think that's coming

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #14)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 08:34 AM

Jun 2020

lastlib

(23,239 posts)

27. The Beer-belly Brownshirts?

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #14)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 11:13 AM

Jun 2020

If they didn't have their guns, they would be pudding.

Blue Owl

(50,393 posts)

15. Pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth walk into a church

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 09:26 PM

Jun 2020

The reverend says "Hello, Donald!"

gademocrat7

(10,659 posts)

18. K&R!

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 09:50 PM

Jun 2020

Ford_Prefect

(7,901 posts)

19. So the question of the day is: What did Trump snort to get his ego out of the basement?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 10:27 PM

Jun 2020

He always looked stoned to me whenever he's pulled one of these bizarre stunts for the camera. His speech is odd and his syntax is from another planet. It's like a person trying to imitate someone in authority using a comic book version as a guide. He's all stylized hype with lots of anger without the gravitas. He reminds me of those rockers who can only play endless trills and seem to think that's what electric guitar should always sound like: shrill and loud and nervous.

BrightKnight

(3,567 posts)

21. I am outraged': Bishop overseeing church responds to Trump photo-op

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 10:44 PM

Jun 2020

(CNN) Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington said Monday evening that she is "outraged" after President Donald Trump visited her church without advance notice to share "a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus."

Her pointed comments came after the President walked from the White House to St. John's Episcopal Church, a house of worship used by American presidents for more than a century. Peaceful protesters just outside the White House gates were dispersed with tear gas, flash grenades and rubber bullets. It was all, apparently, so Trump could visit the church.

"I am outraged. The President did not pray when he came to St. John's, nor as you just articulated, did he acknowledge the agony of our country right now," Budde told CNN's Anderson Cooper on "AC360.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/01/politics/cnntv-bishop-trump-photo-op/index.html

Evolve Dammit

(16,736 posts)

23. I thought of that quote when I woke up this morning. Also, "Dude, where's my country?"

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 08:36 AM

Jun 2020

Ford_Prefect

(7,901 posts)

29. And the reason for the fascist Posing: he was upset over news coverage of his bunker dive.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 11:39 AM

Jun 2020

He didn't like how puny and not-brave it made him look. The mirror can be a harsh judge, eh Donny?

...when CNN’s Kaitlan Collins told Anderson Cooper on air of the reported reason behind this move, the host was shocked and appalled.

“Sources are telling my colleague Kevin Liptak that, in part, the reason the president made this trip outside the gates of the White House — a really rare trip, where you do not often see the president walk out of the front door of the White House, walk across Lafayette Square, to St. John’s — was driven, in part, that he was upset by coverage of the fact that he had been rushed to the underground bunker on Friday night during the protests that you saw breaking out here, in front of the White House,” she said.

“Oh my God!” said Cooper, rolling his eyes. “Wow! We are in trouble. This country is being led by a man … he was taken to a bunker, and you know, he’s hiding in a bunker, and he’s embarrassed that people know that. So what does he have to do? He has to sic police on peaceful protesters so he can make a big show of being, you know, the little big man, walking to a closed down church. And then, you know, he always talks about the world laughing — that the world is laughing at the governors right now. They’re not laughing at the governors, they’re standing in horror at what is happening. The only people that the world is laugh at is the president of the United States.” -Anderson Cooper on CNN-

https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/wow-cnns-anderson-cooper-is-appalled-by-the-real-reason-trump-went-to-st-johns-church/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4689

Cha

(297,275 posts)

30. Exactly the right quote to blast out with BLOTUS'

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 03:32 PM

Jun 2020

FUBARED EVIL STUNT.

Retweeted.

TY, hpd

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)

33. Great quote, but no evidence supports the common attribution to Sinclair Lewis.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 04:10 PM

Jun 2020

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sinclair-lewis-on-fascism/

Mazeltov Cocktail

(569 posts)

34. I think we have now seen what will be happening on November 4th...

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue Jun 2, 2020, 04:38 PM

Jun 2020

It's not often that you are handed a crystal ball and a glimpse into the future. This is how Trump will handle his defeat, we should thank him for the heads up and plan accordingly.