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Do you deny the speech he gave and the very words that came out of Trump's own mouth, in Texas 3 days ago? The entire rally is easily viewed from a variety of videos as are his very person saying the very things reported. Are you saying he did not have a rally in Texas last Saturday, complete with Trump Flags & Confederate Flags and a few swastikas' thrown in for good measure?
Remind me again what crimes these rioters are alleged to have committed and how many of them have been held for more than a year for various misdemeanors like trespassing and disorderly conduct.
Probably most of them should have been released the next day after paying a fine and maybe picking up garbage on the side of the road.
That's what you do with people that commit misdemeanors.
If you hate the orange man so much and don't mind that the media has blatantly lied and exaggerated in their never ending witch hunt, then I beg you to go look in a mirror.
The orange man can win elections because he opposes woke nonsense. Democrats seek to make their racism systemic in schools. Trump fights back.
Democrats, come back to earth and there is no need for a bully who doesn't care about your name calling.
Republican Party leaders are in a tough spot. They've have known for some time now that they can't win fair and square. There aren't enough of them.
They are able to "win" elections by jiggering the Electoral College (designed by Founders as a representational way to conduct elections, but changed later to winner-take-all), gerrymandering voting districts, telling outright, and often outrageous lies about opposing candidates, making it more difficult for people in certain areas to vote by limiting the number of voting hours and polling locations, limiting voting machines, making it more difficult for voters to use mail-in ballots, purging voting rolls so that voters have to complete the time-consuming process of filing a Provisional Ballot in order to vote, ...
And those are just the legal activities.
Republicans are constantly chanting about locking someone up, but guess which party holds the record for indictments and convictions?
The current Republican Party leader is telling his followers to "fight like they've never fought before," and directing them to certain cities.
Is there any doubt in any reasonable person's mind what he is telling them to do?
How far are Republicans willing to support this?
And what future do they have if they don't?
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The other side the poster is speaking of is the side that's trying to transform America into a socialist country. That's the other side.
Trump is doing what Trump does. You don't have to vote for him if you don't like him. He lost the last election because of his rhetoric and divisiveness, why would you think he won't lose again?
The thing is, that side only exists in Trump-inspired biased propaganda news.
The left, certainly the mainstream left, is not trying to transform us into a socialist country. They are not trying to nationalize our industry, for example.
The Trump-propaganda machine is working, and it's danagerous. It's not just Trump either, they GOP has been leaning this way for some 50+ years now. All news has bias, all political parties have leanings. That's true, but to compare them to what Trump is trying to do is not even close.
"Taking care of our fellow Americans" is not Socialism. "Making sure everyone has access to healthcare", "Making sure our workforce is competitive", "Applying Constitutional rights to everyone equally" are not Socialism. They may be ill-advised, they may be poorly executed, but they are not Socialism.
THIS is why Trump and his propaganda machine are so dangerous.
Trump's rally in Texas on January 29 2022 shows exactly why he's so dangerous
"There are times when we should ignore the rhetoric of twice-impeached former President Donald Trump -- and then there are times we must not, because his statements are potentially dangerous to our nation. Trump's comments at his Texas rally on Saturday fall into the latter category." https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/30/opini...lah/index.html
Confederate Flags, Conspiracies, and the Ghost of JFK Jr.: What I Saw at Trump’s Bananas Texas Rally
It’s part roadshow and part religious revival, but the show is a grift and the religion being revived is fascism https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...fk-jr-1292592/
At Texas rally, Trump all but promised a racially charged civil war if he’s indicted |
In one of the most incendiary, dangerous speeches in US history Trump promised mayhem https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/com...-20220130.html
The disgraced & defeated former president dangled pardons for the Jan. 6 rioters and then urged his supporters to descend on New York, Washington or Atlanta to protest and fight like you've never done before if he is convicted of crimes in the ongoing investigations. He spoke approvingly of the violent effort to overthrow the 2020 election and intimated it may be needed again. Trump also spent most of his speech complaining, falsely, that the election was stolen from him and VP Pence let him down when he wouldn't overturn it.
Come on Republican leaders, where are you? The current head of your political party, DJT, the candidate you successfully brought to the Oval Office, has publicly and openly confessed to having committed the crime of seditious conspiracy against the US Government: He produced a written statement and has verbally said he has a right to overturn the election when he said Pence should have done so for him. DJT also confessed publicly to fomenting and inciting by giving aid and comfort to insurrectionists with those pardons.
He is standing there in front of the world daring The US Government, The AG & The Justice Department to enforce the Rule of Law. You come after me and I will stir up my angry mobs and make America suffer.
This is wrong, this is dangerous and there is a major political party, who by their silence and refusal to condemn Trump and his ongoing threatening, violent rhetoric & anti-democratic positions are condoning him and his menacing movement.
Meanwhile, this is all mild compared to the even more dangerous rhetoric from Democrats like Biden, Harris, Pelosi, AOC, Hillary, Obama, etc.
Of course when Trump talk tough like the Democrats do, it’s all of a sudden, “dangerous.”
Basically what you are demanding is the GOP forfeit the next election. That's exactly what would happen if they booted him from the party. He would run as an independent, take a whole lot of votes away from the GOP, and they both would lose together. I'm not getting into the tastefulness of Trump's actions and rhetoric. He clearly has a vast and sizable following that likes what he has to say, regardless of what you think. He is a free citizen and as such, he is free to hold rallies and say whatever he wants to say. I'm not sure what the justification would be for denying him that right.
You call Trump autocratic, but demand the right to behave like an autocrat. Sounds a little hypocritical to me, but I can see why you would like this to happen. If only eliminating your political rivals were that easy...
This is the reason the GOP can’t just boot Trump. The Democrats like to pretend that shouldn’t matter, in large part because of course it’s what they hope will happen. They are being hypocrites about the whole thing as they too have their own fringe capable of inflecting great harm on our nation if given too much control of the party, a phenomenon we are all being forced to suffer through right now.
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You need not worry about that. Rest assured that the majority of the perpetrators of any violence that erupted at the end of the peaceful BLM marches for racial justice were arrested in their various cities, were charged by the district attorneys and are serving prison time or still in jail while awaiting trial. The criminals are being held accountable.
Furthermore, most Americans do not agree with the violence that erupted in some of those cities after some of the BLM demonstrations last summer, and anyone would be hard pressed to find Democratic Party members of Congress or any of the other co-equal branches of our government who encouraged it, condoned it or excused it. Maxine Waters' one statement that you exploit & take out of context was well before the BLM protests and had nothing to do what you imply.
Myriad stark differences have been pointed out between the protests for racial justice and the insurrection stoked by unfounded claims of a stolen presidential election. Turning a blind eye toward January 6, in service of The Big Lie and a sore loser, has eroded our very foundational principles and is sickening to real patriots.
So back to the topic of this thread which is the dangerous Donald J. Trump and the political party who refuses to isolate and condemn him for his corrupt anti-American activities and menacing destabilizing movement.
You are mire delusional than Trump.
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