What will come of this BSA fiasco?

[SHRED]

I predict this will damage them.
Booing an honorable President and cheering a womanizer

[onecaliberal]

1. I hope it's the end

[defacto7]

2. I hope there's a mass exit in protest.

[BigmanPigman]

3. There should be but this is the new normal so there won't be unfortunately.

[geek tragedy]

5. Most scout families are wingnuts so that won't happen nt

[Liberty Belle]

12. There are thousands of comments denouncing this on the BSA FB page, most from Scout families

They are all furious. There is not a single comment there in support of what Trump did.
It is Scout tradition to always invite the President to the Jamboree. But after this that policy should change.
They should apologize to all members, send letters to Scouts who attended telling them why what happened was inappropriate and a violation of scout values such as honesty, kindness and courtesy.

Trump should be sent a letter and disinvited from all future Jamborees while he is president, which hopefully won't be for much longer.

Enraging thousands or maybe millions of Scouting families may be a final straw to get more people ready to support impeachment.

Even if they voted for him, many parents would not be happy about some things he did, like using profanity and encouraging children to boo elected offficials.

[tblue37]

35. And talking about hot people on yachts and hinting at sex parti. nt

[geek tragedy]

46. Thousands of denunciations, millions who thought it was great nt

[duncang]

20. Nope most are not

The troops I have been associated with never were political toward either side. It was the kids we were there for. Look at the BSA twitter feed and you will see scouts. ex-scouts, family members posting they are pissed off.

[FSogol]

39. Completely agree. All the troops that I and my sons were involved with avoided politics. n/t

[SharonClark]

30. Maybe you should think before you write something so insulting and without any proof.

[geek tragedy]

47. Did you notice the reaction the Orange Fuhrer got from the attendees? nt

[geek tragedy]

4. the BSA have revealed themselves to be the NRA's youth corps

Utterly contemptible organization that deserves to fail.

[workinclasszero]

21. Totally agree

The BSA is now Twitler youth.

Fuck those republican scumbags!

[Jack-o-Lantern]

6. Used to be an honorable organization, now just a gang of young and stupid bigots.

[lunasun]

7. It needs to be addressed and called out . Why? A tweet thread I saw earlier brought home why..

Someone compared it to a Hitler Youth rally saying children are impressionable

Someone then replied nonsense , it is nothing and is false outrage ignore it
The best reply to that IMO was this:

"The same people denying the striking resemblance are the same ilk of people that allowed it to happen in Germany."

IMO If there is no BSA responsibility for this rally , there will be another rally with some other youth org
And another. Lots of children to manipulate out there

[RKP5637]

27. Exactly! He's playing the Hitler playbook!!! n/t

[lunasun]

43. +1 Yet many are saying false outrage and at least he showed up. Thier Idol Reagan never showed

in person . So what's with the response from Boy Scouts about Obama who sent a video as many other presidents have? Why did they respond with a boo?
They are young and almost there with the kind of mindset he seeks . Trump didn't force them to react that way . Thier scout leaders they look up to probably lead the boos and they faithfully echoed

The people applauding /defending his BSA speech are already in lockstep with his playbook

The ones ignoring it will probably never care what he does. Just like so many in Germany.

[RKP5637]

49. It's reminiscent of some very bad/evil times! n/t

[msongs]

8. bsa started as and still is a paramilitary organization. and heavily into gun promotion nt

[HAB911]

24. And Christianity

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/01/31/the-boy-scouts-will-allow-transgender-children-to-join-but-atheists-are-still-banned/

[Not Ruth]

37. Sounds like a horrible organization

[FSogol]

41. BS. n/t

[exboyfil]

9. Rex Tillerson is an Eagle Scout

and is still committed to the organization. I wonder if this will help convince him to leave SecState.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke to the group on Friday. The organization is honoring Tillerson, an Eagle Scout himself, with the development of the Rex W. Tillerson Leadership Center at the West Virginia summit site.

[FSogol]

40. He was also instrumental in getting them to allow gay scouts.

(As CEO of Exxon who is a huge financial supporter of BSA.)

[lunasun]

44. Yes the building will have his name on it at the Ntl summit bechtel scout reserve

[JI7]

10. they were always right wing leaning

[Voltaire2]

17. no not true. Founded by leftist William D. Boyce.

It became our own little Hitler Youth organization starting in the 50s.

[roamer65]

11. I hope Dump's toxic touch ends the organization.

[ProudLib72]

13. I doubt this will end the organization

In fact, I'm more concerned that the decent people will leave and what is left will truly become Hitler youth.

[Skittles]

14. Trump made an absolute fucking fool of himself

seriously

[RKP5637]

28. Endlessly he makes a damn fool of himself and also of this country. n/t

[Not Ruth]

15. One would hope that the Girl Scouts recruit the Boy Scouts that no longer want to be part of this

The time for gender defined Scouts is over IMHO.

[HAB911]

25. Just tweeted

Link to tweet

[obamanut2012]

16. The BSA is run by the Mormons, so nothing will happen

[nikibatts]

19. Then we need to let the Mormons know how we feel about this.

[Not Ruth]

36. I thought that the Mormons have their own version of the scouts for boys over 13

[FSogol]

42. Not true. n/t

[jberryhill]

18. Nothing

[bedazzled]

22. Hopefully they will be stuck with tons of overpriced popcorn

It is a shame that something that could be so positive has come to this

[duncang]

23. I hope it starts off with resignations of anyone there.

Along with a full statement condemning his hate rally speech.

[kacekwl]

26. They will likely put up a statue of him .

Then a push to change the name to BSAKKK.

[RKP5637]

29. Another failing institution. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

31. Jack-Fucking-Shit

Since we all know Donnie will say or do something even more outrageous within 24-36 hours and we'll all have long since forgotten about this... Rinse and repeat....

[Cosmocat]

33. THIS

sadly to say ..

[Cosmocat]

32. Yes, THIS will do him in! Like ...

that time when he pissed all over John McCain, who is going to life flight (not literally) his ass to DC to cast the deciding vote to take health care fro 30+ million americans.

Or, that audio tape of his bragging how he liked to grab women by their p______s.

Or, that time he went to war with a gold star father.

Or, that time x 100,000

[jmg257]

34. Nothing. His supporters loved it, his detractors hated it. Same old same old.

[ecstatic]

38. That organization is dead to me. No man or boy in my family

will ever be associated with that group, which appeared to be a vile, right wing, racist, pro-trump organization. No thanks.

[hatrack]

45. In terms of big hits by political 16-inch shells? Probably not a damned thing . . ..

In terms of the general public (or at least a substantial slice of it) finally realizing that there's no institution or occasion that he won't take a stinking runny shit on as long as he gets to puff and strut for a few minutes?

It might help - a few more buckets of acid dumped over what remains of his "image".

[taught_me_patience]

48. Nothing. Deplorables will call us snowflakes

For bringing it up. BSA organization will remain silent.