Trump's Minneapolis Rally Was a Demonstration of the Moral Suicide Pact He's Made With His Supporters
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The president makes a lot of things clear here. The only real "reporting" is whatever helps him and hurts his opponents. The same goes for what constitutes Fake News: it's any negative coverage of him. What is true—what's reflected in observable reality—is not relevant.
It was surely a swift process for some people. Here's a talk-radio soundboard running for president, yelling about Mexicans and Muslims and how we need a Big, Beautiful Wall to keep Those People out. He knows whose country this is. He knows who should make the rules, and who ought to shut up and follow them. He knows who gets a seat at the table in America. They were in from the jump, from the moment they first stood at a rally and felt that twisted power coursing through their veins.
But others, you have to think, were more gradual converts. Maybe they felt the world was passing them by. Maybe they didn't know until he came along how much they needed an outlet for their rage at a million quotidian cuts—the new boss who doesn't look like a boss should look, having to press "1" for English. They were primed for it, sure, but it took a while to fully commit. Day after day, as they continued to support him—through the racist tirades and the attacks on veterans and their families and the exploding allegations that he is a serial sexual predator —they were forced to give up more and more of themselves to stay on-board. And as they gave up more of themselves, they became more and more devout in their allegiance to The Movement. At some point, the sunk cost became insurmountable. There is no going back now. They have given all of themselves to him.
That is how we arrived in the place we did on Thursday night at a rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Donald Trump, American president took the stage and, among a great many other things, did this. The crowd laughed and cheered.
He may once have told you, in his way, not to believe your eyes and ears . But you can. The President of the United States did indeed just act out some sort of sexual fantasy, in front of thousands and on C-SPAN, between two characters from his extended Deep State Conspiracy Universe. The stars of this show were Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two FBI employees involved in the Russia probe who were having an affair and were opposed to the president's candidacy for president. (There is no evidence of misconduct .)
This is the president channeling everything he learned from Vince McMahon, pausing after he recites the names of the various heels so the crowd can howl their derision. The details aren't important. This is the show, where the enemies get bashed and We cheer together. This is the president deliberately debasing his office, going lower than ever before and bringing his supporters with him, because he knows they have ventured into the deep and dark together now and they can't see any path back. They will follow him until he is stopped, and the farther they follow, the more they are his. There is nothing that cannot be excused away with half-baked crap about Fake News or What About Hillary. Nihilism is at the heart of things now. There are no standards or ethics to be observed, only enemies to lash out at from the darkness.
The rest of last night's national disgrace was predictable by now. The president cooked up egregious lies about Democratic leaders in Congress . He recited the names of his greatest allies on State TV and talked about how great their ratings are. He proudly said , "There was no blackmail," on his call with the leader of Ukraine. Mr. President: Thank you. He accused his enemies of that which he is guilty. He joked about serving more than his constitutionally mandated two terms. He exhibited clear signs of cognitive decline. He said Joe Biden , the former Vice President of the United States, only got the job "because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama's ass." And what exactly was Proper Evangelical Good Boy Mike Pence doing while the president simulated orgasms on-stage last night? After all, he and Mother were standing there in the arena.
But the real ugliness came on a similarly predictable topic. Minneapolis is home to Ilhan Omar and the sizable Somali community there from which she hails, and it was always bound to feature in this Thursday Night Raw -meets-Riefenstahl with a script courtesy of Stephen Miller. First, he recited some evidence-free conspiracy theories he got off a right-wing blog.
The president makes a lot of things clear here. The only real "reporting" is whatever helps him and hurts his opponents. The same goes for what constitutes Fake News: it's any negative coverage of him. What is true—what's reflected in observable reality—is not relevant. But he is also very intent to cast the Minnesota congresswoman as The Other here. Not only is she a black Muslim woman, she must be smeared as someone who would violate basic codes of our society by marrying her brother. (Again, this is all horse shit.) She cannot be One of Us. She cannot be an American. She is The Other, and has no right to a seat at the table or a say in how we run our society. The crowd howled in response, including the kid, who couldn't have been older than 15, standing behind Trump on-camera.
This is more than dirty politics, though. Omar already receives a huge volume of death threats —particularly when the president mentions her by name—and members of a right-wing militia hatched a plot to bomb a Minnesota mosque in 2017 . The president himself has embraced political violence repeatedly . While the vast majority of his supporters would not engage in it, some have , including a Florida man who sent pipe bombs to the president's perceived enemies at CNN . The president knows what he's doing. He wants to make it not just unpleasant but physically dangerous to oppose him. He wants his enemies to be afraid to participate in our politics. It is the language of force. He also wanted to make clear that Omar's Otherness was a proxy for the community she represents.
This is a virulently racist tirade aimed at ginning up the worst instincts of the people in the crowd. It is not a coincidence Trump chose to come here, or to target a refugee community that is black and Muslim. This is how he thinks he can win reelection: by continuing to pull his base of support towards more vitriolic expressions of this vision of America as a country for and by white people; by scaring other constituencies away from speaking out; by using the Republican Party's machinations to stop inconvenient voters from voting ; by smearing his opponents as Just As Bad As Him, They Just Pretend to Be Prim and Proper; by soliciting foreign meddling that will benefit him in exchange for favors when he is reelected.
All the while, he will drag his supporters deeper and deeper into the abyss. They cannot be reached now, only stopped.
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Trump is only mirroring who his supporters are and the true essence of their souls. Since he was elected I have waited for his supporters to influence this president for the greater good but they don't seem to be capable of that. History will show how easily the weak minded can be manipulated and influenced to behave and act out in the worst way.
History IS showing, how the weak minded, will never find it. Truth is out of reach for so many, if it wasn't so meaningful,
it would be laughable.
To be frank, it just makes me sad. I've had this illusion about what America is and who American's are. Seeing who trump supporters are has made me feel like I've been lied to.
just by listening to the president,
you have been .
True. They love him for publicly being the piece of shit they only wish they could be. They vicariously live their shitty lives through him.
This should probably be the topic of it's own seed. I think it is true that many Trumnpsters live vicariously through the moron-in-chief. But why?
Always amusing about the pearl clutching from the left about the supposed violence of Trump rallies that ignores the actual viscous attacks by left-wingers on American citizens outside the rally.
Why is the left so violent? And why doesn't the media or really any progressive care?
Donald Trump is either literally deranged or pretends to be deranged because he thinks that is what his supporters expect him to be (and many of them do). Either way it is sick.
It must really suck to be stuck on a forum like this trying to defend insanity.
It also must really suck to publish vitriolic, hysterical "I Hate Trump" articles almost every day.
Trump lives rent-free in your head!
It is obvious that it really sucks to be a Trump defender.
Credibility? Gone.
Dignity? Gone.
Contact with reality? Gone.
Do you think the media is objective?
Lots of fools lost all contact with reality the day their Abuela lost.
Screaming at the sky isn't a rational act.
Fixating on wild-ass conspiracy theories and shouting "He isn't my President" and "He isn't qualified" for almost 3 years now isn't a mark of sanity, either.
Millions of people knew what Trump was long before the 2016 election. He has always been a pathological liar, diseased narcissist, and mental midget. All of which makes him unfit for office.
You were told that Trump would be resisted every day of his term in office. Now it has happened exactly as you were told it would and yet you endlessly bitch about people opposing this asshole.
The deluded ones are not the ones who oppose trump.
Lots of fools lost all contact with reality the day they lost the civil war.
No, they no longer can be objective. The fate of the free world is at stake because of people like you.
That may well be the case, but surely all those Democrats who lost the Civil War are dead by now--for many decades, for sure--so we really can't ask them now, can we?
WTF does the Civil War and Democrats' reactions to that loss have to do with inane conspiracy theories about Trump being a cult leader?
You never fail to stick to your dedicated "I HATE TRUMP!!" screed. I admire your intestinal fortitude in living that Trump hate 24/7!
Just THINK what you could accomplish if you devoted half of that time to a worthy cause!
Think of what the GOP could accomplish if they dumped Trump and nominated someone else in 2020.
There is nothing more worthier than trying to save our republic from americans who are betraying our country by following a leader who is destroying our country from within and ignoring our Constitution and our laws.
And there is nothing more asinine than thinking the President is some kind of cult leader.
Afraid the Democrats will lose again to Trump?
I don't think Trump is a cult leader. I think he is a domestic terrorist [Deleted]
Wild hysteria never is a good look.
I'm a warrior princess and that IS a good look.
(except I don't have blond hair.......and my thighs are NOT that big)
I'm out for a bit - I have to go pack. I'll be back later to battle evil
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Sure, they were as Democrat as Lincoln was a Republican. By today's standards, Lincoln would be a far left wing liberal.
Tens of millions.
All of which makes him very similar to LBJ and Nixon.
BTW, who will you be giving us as an option for 2020?
Riiiiight. Because posting multiple articles daily on an obscure internet forum damages Trump immensely.
Why don't you run?
Why dont you run? The conservatives need a new candidate.
Yes, and many democrats continue to be that way today.
Undeniable fact.
So you say. But that doesn't make it reality.
Because I'm happy with my current life. Trump doesn't send me into apoplectic fits of hysteria.
I thought your comment was funny. Peeps need to lighten up on this site.
LOL
There is nothing "more worthier" than trying to save our republic from americans who want to turn our country into a third world socialist shit-hole.
we will give no ground.
r u positive u r neutral on all the negativity
r guemeant 4 me, thee, or thy, cause afforded it, sum Ken knot, knor will not .
by the weigh i right, does it prove my exciting point wrong or dull...
Is that a standard answer from the magic eight ball? I'd like a do over. It's clear the device has obviously lost some of it's fluids.
You may not give ground but by electing Trump, y'all lost your soul.
Hehehehehehehe
Alright Wally,
you hit that one right out of the ballpark.
quit showing off,
but,
nicely done,
so ya say.... LOL
good luck with the impeachment fantasy
cheers
They are called books.
Trump uses socialism all the time. But let me guess, that's ok, right?
Lots of fools did too when your Abuelo won.
Are you talking about ANTIFA and their mission to fuck up Nazis? I have always said I completely support them as long as they just keep it to Nazis and other white supremacists.
As far as people just acting stupid at protests or rallies or whatever? Meh, people get dumber in larger and larger groups, it is expected.
So your ok is some people's rights are violated as long as you disagree with them.
Nazis should be shot on sight. I advocate the exact same rights they would extend to me.
Nazis should be shot on sight
Cool. Mobs just declare people walking down then street "Nazis" and then kill them.
American Progressives, Keeping Stalinism alive for the 21st Century.
I am 100% okay with executing Nazis as they are found. They are Nazis. As my grandfather (served in Europe) once told me. "the only good Nazi is a dead one."
Aside from that group fuck no. But glad to see you are looking out for the Nazis.
Yawn.
Glad to see you are in favor of mob violence and killing anyone who the mob dislikes. You seem like a natural leader of a lynch mob. Unfortunately for you, you were born at the wrong time.
While I hope you or your loved ones never get called a Nazi and killed by accident, I guess you'd be fine with that.
And Trump just one upped Obama yet again in your eyes with a War of Trumps' making, and you have what to say about the senseless slaughter of our best allie against ISISL's ?
Lol, I love how you are standing up for Nazis.
And if one of my loved ones ever came out to be a Nazi, hard a it would be, fuck'em.
I guess you are replying to me by mistake. No literate person could possibly claim I'm "standing up for Nazis"
es ever came out to be a Nazi, hard a it would be, fuck'em.
As I said, you were born to lead a lynch mob. Imagine being okay with your loves ones being killed because a mob mistook them for Nazis. Takes a special kind of commitment in the wisdom of mobs to believe that.
what, did he cock block Donald;s Dick while he was fckn Goofy ?
,
You tell the ones with bombs raining down on them how they are not in a WAR , Trump created by being the failure that just won't stop failing.
His words have people DEAD, Live with it, while you make some more excuses for the abortion in our White House
Turkey is an ally also and has been a member of NATO since 1952. If our troops would have stayed you would have bitched about how we were fighting our Turkish allies and probably only for oil . So drop the false anger bit, I ain't buying.
The first thing a cult leader does is tell you everyone else is lying to you. You know, like screaming that all media is fake with the exception of state run media.
In any case, the protests in Minneapolis were much bigger that trump's ridiculous lie fest.
Isn't that what the Democrats do? Everyone lies but them.
Trump is a liar, Trump supporters are liars, Fox News lies, Republicans lie, everyone lies.
I am pretty sure than trumps supporters are not Democrats.
Thank gawd, or we would have the lying piece of shit Hillary in the White House, with her hound dog rapist husband.
(that)
Politicians, left or right, lie about 35% of the time, Hillary is right on the average at 36% percent of the time. Trump is just over 83% of the time.
Now what was that you were saying about a "lying piece of shit in the White House"? Congrats, you voted for the candidate that lies the most.
Is he?
Donny-Boy wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in the heiney
That would be two lying pieces of shit.
Ya got me there, trump and pence. Thanks for the correction.
Trump's play book:
Cult leader?
WTF??
LMFAO!!!
Whoo, boy!
WHERE do you GET this stuff from??
So you are saying trump has never attacked the media? Trump has never said that the media LIES? Trump has never used the term, "fake news"?
That's what you're going with?
Mr. Frost, it appears to me that you can, indeed, read English pretty well. Go ahead and quote me stating what the hell you are asking.
Now, did you READ me stating that or just ask some inane question to cover up the fact that you believe Trump is some kind of cult leader based on wild rantings and stupid conspiracy theories?
Please explain these lies away.
People like you. People who excuse anything and everything he does for some extremely fucked up reason.
The other day my father and uncle dragged me into a political discussion at my 5 year old's birthday party, it ended up being 5 minutes of me shitting on them and Trump and listening to their sorry ass excuses for his behavior. Eventually I got bored and so I ended it by just saying "what is really pathetic is watching 2 grown ass, accomplished men make excuses for him like we are at his birthday party." We hadn't even gotten to his policies, just his behavior and complete lack of morals.
They know he absolutely sucks, but are too invested at this point to change course. It is truly pitiful.
Goes right along with "moral suicide pact".
Just more of the now ubiquitous liberal hysteria.
People like me? How asinine! I have never said Trump was a cult leader. He made that shit up on his own or posted an article saying it because he agreed with it. Don't blame ME for that shit.
Oh yeah, so I should have listened to my grandmother when she told me you can't trust niggers? I mean, she is my senior and, with more life experience, clearly I should take what she said to heart.
Only a fucking moron thinks age begets wisdom.
YOU bought into it.
they're amusing, if they weren't so lost and it wasn't so serious...
And didn't have guns. That is the worst part, as a society we have allowed the mentally ill to carry.
Sounds like my best friends grandma who refers to Japanese people as Japs.
Yup, with age comes wisdom, yup.
Nope. I was just referencing your apparent inability to dispute what I said in #5.
Vote Trump 2020!!!!!! Making ISIS great again!!!!!!
When was ISIS ever great?
Shouldn't you be asking Trump that question?
hes the one bringing them back
Probably just when it was the JV squad!
Never, but trump is sure trying to make them great!
Ask your boy Trump, he apparently wants them to come back.
Why not ask Obama. He's the ones that got them started.
is Obama implementing policy here and now ?
Oh! Silly me! I forgot that when Obama screwed up we were supposed to ignore it or blame someone else and that any Obama screw up never existed or is irrelavent now that he's out of office.
a screw up, is a screw up
you're supposed to learn from History, don't you think,
but,
how the fck that has a damn thing to do with , sayy, oh i don't know,
possibly the mental midget at the helm , while out of this realm,
but
in like the here and now sense, when possibly, if say , even a few that know better, that
Trump is fgking up royally, and i have a sense, that you, and many others posting excuse after excuse actually realize this time his real lies, is having a Blatent out and out murdering of peoples.
How you can attempt to make it about Obama, is just sad
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not admitting that we have a problem president, is even lower, for Somebody's sake, lets venture back to the severity of a small bit of 'ethnic cleansing'
and how you and others posting,
think it can in anyway be ignored.
I'm serious arkpdx, can you reply in good faith in answer to a serious question i pose to you ?
and that goes out to it is ME, Jack Texas, Texas Jack, and Fish, and anybody else that i've disagreed with on THIS specific issue
and htat goes for you other guys that i disagree with, but , don't have the mental energy to actually recall your names like Sparty and CB, and such whoever
.
i'd like THIS one explained, as this one IS having Life and Death Consequences, directly from Trumps, doings' / undoings' and don't give me we didn't know this would happen, remember what the last sane one in the administration upper bracket , resigned about
this is a dead serious issue
ISIS came to power in 2006, pretty Sure Obama wasn't in office then. And didn't you just complain that Obama killed American terrorist in the ME, that had joined ISIS?
I love it though, trump just made sure 10,000 ISIS fighters got released while shitting on our allies and all you can come up with is yet another "O" slam? Really? LMFAO!
Wrong.
Never?
Then that makes your comment:
rather nonsensical, doesn't it?