Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) responds to Trump's Proud Boys comment

[brooklynite]

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[EarlG]

1. Proud Boys have already turned it into a slogan they're marketing, so

it might be a bit late to correct it now...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214167548

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. Pathetic.

[Happyhippychick]

3. A black man should come out a lot more strongly, he's weak sauce.

[Sapient Donkey]

8. It's weak, but at least it's something.

Such wording may be more likely to penetrate the automatic defenses of the Trump cultists who shootdown anything negative they hear about Trump. Perhaps this will at least allow that thought to get into their head.

I don't know, though. I was always into that way of approaching things pre-trump, but a lot of that stuff doesn't seem to work with them. Just to clarify, I don't think that is Tim Scott's strategy here, I think he's just taking a weak stance on it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. "From cotton to rotten"

Just shut up, Tim.

[Claustrum]

5. What a pathetic response.

What happens if he didn't mis-speak? You go back to your silence and support him still?

[greenjar_01]

6. Y'all bagging on Tim Scott but that's like breathing fire for him

Actually a withering statement in context, and in the context of a highly competitive SC Senate race between Harrison and Graham.

[gratuitous]

7. Really, Sen. Scott?

"There is none so blind as one who will not see."

[moose65]

9. That could be the motto of Trump supporters

I've posted that very thing on Facebook many times. They have convinced themselves that Trump is the savior, and nothing is ever going to change their minds. It describes them to a T.

The other saying that describes them is "It's easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled."

[gratuitous]

11. And as for the Senator's lame "misspeak" excuse

It's pretty obvious that the Nazis heard what Donald Trump was saying, clear as a bell. Sen. Scott is taking on all of the "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" triumvirate parts by himself.

[njhoneybadger]

10. He's not going to correct it so stop guessing.