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Just BLEW UP the entire GOP argument’: Trump-a-palooza ends with ‘Pledge of Obedience

  

Category:  News & Politics

Via:  tig  •  2 months ago  •  24 comments

By:   WWMT-TV

Just BLEW UP the entire GOP argument’: Trump-a-palooza ends with ‘Pledge of Obedience
I don't care if I'm registered or not. I'm going to try and cheat like hell, like they do.

How do these people support this lunatic?

He has spent $25 billion on ICE deporting illegals and legislation has provided more than $113 billion in additional multi-year funding for ICE.   Yet he encourages non-registered individuals to vote.

He is trying to kill mail-in ballots yet encourages his supporters to vote before November 3.

He has endlessly claimed corruption in elections (with no evidence).   And here this arrogant, sick buffoon is telling his supporters to cheat in the midterms.

And they are cheering him on!


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( Transcript (Trump portion) formatted by ChatGPT )

Please raise your right hand.

I pledge—I pledge—to the greatest president in the history of the United States, that loves us so much he can't even breathe. 

That I will go out with my family, my friends. I'll do it anyway. I don't care if I'm registered or not. I'm going to try and cheat like hell, like they do.

They never—there's never been bigger cheaters. I don't care. I am going to go out and I'm going to get my friends, my family, and we are going to vote on November 3rd, or we are going to vote before that.



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TᵢG
Professor Principal
1  seeder  TᵢG    2 months ago

How can so many minds be ensnared by this lunatic?

Not even a hint of critical thinking by these people.

 
 
 
evilone
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1.1  evilone  replied to  TᵢG @1    2 months ago
How can so many minds be ensnared by this lunatic?

Only 28% of recently polled voters say they are voting to support Trump. That's a historically low number, but still too many. I'm pretty much convinced it's people who believe Dems are socialist-marxist-communists and couldn't tell you what any of those terms actually mean.

 
 
 
afrayedknot
Senior Silent
1.1.1  afrayedknot  replied to  evilone @1.1    2 months ago

“Only 28% of recently polled voters say they are voting to support Trump.”

The blatant bigots who willingly refuse to see it in their support for the charlatan who gave them a platform to voice the latent hatred. 

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
1.1.2  devangelical  replied to  afrayedknot @1.1.1    2 months ago

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
1.2  devangelical  replied to  TᵢG @1    2 months ago

too bad he doesn't own a horse he can name as his successor ...

 
 
 
Thomas
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1.3  Thomas  replied to  TᵢG @1    2 months ago

Trump is Captain Chaos incarnate. Chaos is his method of operation and he sows and reaps with the same disregard for truth, lies, or flights of fancy. The reason is to disorient the listener to the point of distraction and thus not know who to believe, so they stop trying to verify and slip into faith.

I know some very smart people who have fallen under the spell of the Don. They have gone over to the dark side. Pity.

 
 
 
CB
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1.3.1  CB  replied to  Thomas @1.3    2 months ago

If there is a 'lucid' thought that is occurring in Trump/MAGA supporter worldview it is this:  ( CNN article about .)

Some Americans don’t believe all people are created equal. Their movement is going mainstream, this author says

They hold this truth to be self-evident: Only a fool believes that all men are created equal.

Look around you, they say. Most Americans  are  takers, not makers. Rich people  work  harder. Poor people make bad choices. Some racial groups are born with  more intelligence  than others. That may sound harsh to some, but remember, they say, " empathy is a weakness ."

These observations come from some of the most prominent people in the country. They seemingly reject the foundational American belief — enshrined in the  Declaration of Independence  — that "all men are created equal." Instead, these people belong to a "shadow tradition" of anti-egalitarians who have fought against America's founding ideas — and their movement is going mainstream, one historian says in a new boo k .

As the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, it's easy to forget what drove many Americans of the Revolutionary era: a hatred of hierarchy and inequality . They envisioned a "country without lords, kings or a hereditary aristocracy ," Phillips-Fein writes.

Phillips-Fein recently talked to CNN about how those ideals have eroded in recent years and why some working- class and poor people embrace the belief that extreme inequality is good for America. She also discussed how the growing popularity of democratic socialist candidates in the US may represent a return to egalitarian ideas.

. . . .

What inspired you to write this book?

I was trying to answer the question of why conservatism is so deeply rooted in American history . Why is it that these ideas so often appeal? One way to think about this was to look at the long history of these ideas, and not just at a moment like the 2016 election, or of Ronald Reagan in the 1970s and 80s.

The book is trying to grapple with how extraordinarily unequal the American economy and society has become today. Why is that? And how is it that people accept this incredibly high level of economic inequality that … makes it increasingly hard for democracy to function?

When I started working on this book, I did not realize that it would come out in the summer in which we would see the world's first trillionaire (Elon Musk, briefly). That is what the book is speaking to. How is it that this incredible concentration of wealth happened?

You say a "shadow tradition" has enabled this level of inequality. What is that tradition?

If you look back through the sweep of American history, there's one overt tradition that celebrates the idea of equality and democracy. You hear people giving lip service to this and talking about the schoolbook version of what American history is about.

But alongside it, and in dialogue with it, is a shadow that's closely connected to another set of ideas, which says, actually people are not equal.

Those ideas say some people are superior to others, and the inequality that exists in the world around us reflects those innate differences, and inequality is a good thing, and a necessary thing, and the only real way to organize social life.

It's striking how many times you hear people explicitly countering the language of the Declaration of Independence. (She cites Ford, the automobile tycoon, who wrote in his autobiography: "Most certainly all men are not equal, and any democratic conception which strives to make men equal is only an effort to block progress.")

And so the article continues (read the link it's quite informative about this mindset). 

What Trump and his MAGA supporters are signaling is this: Power is good. And since it is good: Conservatives MUST be the ones wielding it against their 'adversaries' - which, they have judged, to be 'Many.'

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
1.3.2  devangelical  replied to  Thomas @1.3    2 months ago
I know some very smart people who have fallen under the spell of the Don.

many of my former colleagues and friends have gone over the ledge, it's the crazed thumper segment that concerns me most ...

 
 
 
Gordy327
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1.4  Gordy327  replied to  TᵢG @1    2 months ago

Irrational people do irrational things.

 
 
 
CB
Professor Guide
2  CB    2 months ago

I have been saying Trump is an election hustler for months, an 'unregulated' one at that. Democrats had better get flexible and stay so because Trump will 'steal' their thunder and out hustle votes if they do not stay on top of this and all his attempts and efforts to boot!

 
 
 
CB
Professor Guide
3  CB    2 months ago

Trump is going to be doing this kind of thing up to and touching November 3.  He tries to 'puff-up' and look 'light-hearted' about it, and yet he deeply serious about what he is telling GOP voters to do.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
3.1  devangelical  replied to  CB @3    2 months ago

he's in his grapes of wrath, grandpa joad stage of life, when every outburst gets us closer to his last one ...

 
 
 
CB
Professor Guide
3.1.1  CB  replied to  devangelical @3.1    2 months ago

Yes, Trump is one of those bitter types that appears to want to appear before his 'Maker' expressing gall. It appears his 'flock' takes after its 'Shepherd.' 

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
3.1.2  devangelical  replied to  CB @3.1.1    2 months ago

I got to converse with several geriatric psychiatrists and psychologists over a decade ago that were treating my dad, and witnessed the ex's dad, as they were both headed for the exits. the happy go lucky tend to linger, the mean ones crash hard.

he won't need to make the appearance, along with the majority of his cult.

I think trump is especially dangerous now, given his tendency to destroy things when he doesn't get his way ...

 
 
 
CB
Professor Guide
3.1.3  CB  replied to  devangelical @3.1.2    2 months ago

He does not realize it. . . how miserable a creature he really is. When it could have been so much better for him, in my opinion.

One has to wonder: Would it have been better for Donald Trump to not have met Roy Cohn, or were they truly two (miserable) soulmates that would have found each other through hook or crook somehow.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
3.1.4  devangelical  replied to  CB @3.1.3    2 months ago

roy successfully groomed trump and created the child molester he is today ...

 
 
 
Hal A. Lujah
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4  Hal A. Lujah    2 months ago

Trump’s argument is that Democrats are so excellent at cheating that it is impossible to catch them.  Therefore you should believe the most egregious and prolific liar humanity has ever had the misfortune to elect, and take for granted that no proof is necessary when defining democrats as cheaters.  All of Congress is smart enough to see the con, but the ones who still support this cretin are still on board with winning by literally any means necessary.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
5  devangelical    2 months ago

 
 
 
freepress
Freshman Silent
6  freepress    2 months ago

So Democrats are "cheaters" who got Trump elected???

They cheated so well they also elected a Republican majority????

Maybe Trump should start handing out checks $$$ to Democrats since they have really done him a solid.

 
 
 
Gsquared
Professor Expert
7  Gsquared    2 months ago

Magas taking the Trump Pledge of Obedience --

                      original

"Some very fine people..."  - Donald J. Trump

 
 
 
devangelical
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7.1  devangelical  replied to  Gsquared @7    2 months ago

nice white nationalist/neo-nazi emblem on his polo shirt ...

 
 
 
Thomas
Professor Guide
7.1.1  Thomas  replied to  devangelical @7.1    2 months ago

Why do scumbags always have to co-opt and corrupt everything?

As a geologist, I see that symbol as a representation of a silica tetrahedron, a fundamental building block of all silicate minerals.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
7.1.2  devangelical  replied to  Thomas @7.1.1    2 months ago

a newer version of blood and soil, with a twist ...

 
 
 
Nerm_L
Professor Expert
8  Nerm_L    2 months ago

Donald J. Trump is, indeed, a sorry excuse for a human being.  But using MSNOW as the messenger is self-defeating.  

 
 

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