Donald Trump has ignited alarm among his critics after telling a crowd of supporters that they won’t “have to vote again” if they return him to the presidency in November’s election.
“Christians, get out and vote! Just this time – you won’t have to do it any more,” the Republican former president said on Friday night at a rally hosted in West Palm Beach, Florida, by the far-right advocacy group Turning Point Action.
“You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians.”
At that point, with a slight shake of his head and his right hand pressed against the left side of his chest, Trump said, “I’m not Christian.” But he added: “I love you. Get out – you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”
There is nothing subtle or coded about his message. The wannabee dictator-for-life isn't blowing a dog-whistle to the Christian Taliban, like Chimpy did. He is blowing a steam-whistle.
Take him seriously. As far as Trump is concerned, you get one vote for one man for one more time. He has no intention of leaving the White House, other than by anointing a successor, who will then take the reins of a Trumpist dictatorship.
And no, Gentle Reader, that is no hyperbole. That is a promise out of his mouth.
Do you believe in the Spirit of 1776? Do you believe that all people are created equal, that we are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights? Do you believe that, while this country may not have fully achieved the promise set forth on July 4, 1776, that we have kept trying to get there?
If you believe in America, if you believe in living in a democratic republic, if you believe that the men and women who have died over the last two hundred and fifty years to protect, preserve and defend this country and its Constitution died nobly, then if you vote for Trump, you are betraying the Constitution, this country, and you are pissing on the graves of those soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and, yes, civilians who died for this country.
And again, there is nothing hyperbolic or overstated about the preceding paragraph. It is the unvarnished truth.
If you vote for Trump, the Minutemen, who assembled on the greens of Lexington and Concord in the predawn hours of April 19, 1775, they might have well stayed in bed. The old farmer who single-handedly took on the British Army that day, he might as well continued to work in his field. Those who worked the sails and guns of Old Ironsides might as well stayed ashore.
You betray your country if you vote for Trump. And that, my friends, is the fact of the matter.
And, as an aside: Imagine the uproar among the pearl-clutchers of the MSM if Biden or Harris said that you wouldn't need to vote after this election. That would be all that we would be hearing about for days, if not weeks.
ETA: It took the Grey Trumpist of Times Square a day to figure out the importance of what he said. First, they buried the lede.
Really? That's who the R's want to follow? Claim to support the Constitution, and elect a guy that will dissolve it? The self-proclaimed Law and Order party that wants to elect the convicted felon/rapist/conman?
ReplyDeleteC'mon now. How can the R's spin this? You see it and hear it from the guy himself. Is the only reason you HAVE to vote for him is because Kamala is black? How will the talking heads on FAUX news going to explain this away?
Dale
Anybody who votes for Trump needs to self-deport. There are plenty of dictatorships about the world.
ReplyDeleteStrikes me as that is rather specific talk of subverting the government
ReplyDeleteas in fomenting an insurrection.
Hes tried this before and thinks he got away with it. However my
belief If I got on social media and talked this way I'd expect to
have a visit by some or many three letter agencies.
Is it a borderline criminal act?? Where's the line?
Eck!
In the cleanest video I have found, he admits he is not a Christian, just using them to advance his political agenda
ReplyDeleteAnd the Right's only defenses of these statements are "he's being taken out of context" or "his words are being twisted" or similar. Which is obviously no defense at all, because he said what he said and words have meanings.
ReplyDeleteIn defense of the narcissist he could have meant the same as some tour guide saying "Once you take our air tour over the Grand Canyon you will never have to look at another natural wonder again."
ReplyDeleteBut now I will need to rest a bit with an ice pack after all that stretching.
"he's being taken out of context"
ReplyDeleteEvery time I hear that I call Bullshit! You listen to his speech
all of it the context is clear and its not someone twisting a sound
bite or removing context.
If your making excuses for the FOFF piece of shit your also a liar
and subject to the same scrutiny.
Eck!
The problem I see is that plenty of the people I talk to during my work day think/hope he will bring the economic Jubilee somehow - lower gas prices, end inflation, drop interest rates - and actually look back on 2020 and say, "Things were better then." Everything else is politics, which they ignore. They don't believe he's a threat to democracy, and I can't argue with them on the job.
ReplyDeleteThe fact he will do no such thing, just as he did not bring coal jobs back to WV after 2016, doesn't seem to matter.
Pappenheimer
Why would anybody vote for an old man whose statements constantly need explaining by his faithful toadys ?
ReplyDeleteCargo Cult.
ReplyDeleteWhen promises to do something awful -believe him.
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