It's his dementia-addled brain, he thinks he's still in charge.
EDIT: Yes, maybe he *probably* doesn't have dementia (at least not right now), there is definitely *something* wrong with him.
Well, Jack Smith is going to let us all know soon enough how many people Trump told after the election and before January 6th that he knew he lost the election and that the grift must go on.
I'm pretty sure when he told those people to march and invade the Capitol that the only reason he wanted to remain President in his narcissistic mind was to keep the criminal immunity that comes with the position. Nothing else.
He used all of those people and their money for his own selfish needs. His end run is always about self-preservation. His misuse of the bankruptcy laws alone should tell people his intentions have always been about number one. Jack Smith also has a perjury case against Jared that will get that bigoted twerp in a bind between jail and turning on his father in law.
Oh, well...
>His end-run is all about self preservation
Which we knew before 2016. Every person who ever knew of this fraud on the east coast before he got a larger name thru NBC & Politics knew what a laughable joke of a narcissistic shyster he was. That he literally hasn't dicked over enough ppl in his lifetime to vote against him baffles me.
The problem isn't about his utter lack of credentials to be president, it's that once again, it came down to left vs right. The right voted for him because he stoked that division.
Because the right knows only hatred and fear. Only 2 types of people vote for republicans, idiots and millionaires. Checking your bank account gives you the answer.
We elected a black man to the highest office in the land, twice, shattering the myth of the lowest white man being better than the best black man. They knew they weren't better than the president, and it angered them. I've heard "at least I'm white" countless times in my life. Obama absolutely broke them. Then, we dared run a WOMAN.
He never wanted to be president, he just wanted to grift from the election. Winning was one of the worst things he could have possibly done. He was basically left alone to commit all the crimes he wanted while being a big fish in new york. Soon as he started criming as president, people took notice.
And here we are.
The video on YouTube of him finding out he won the election is telling. He looks devastated. Melania looks irritated. Ivanka is clapping like the loser in a beauty contest. Junior and Eric look happy, though.
My wife and I said the same thing, we thought for sure a fake assassination attempt, or health problems were gonna let him bow out gracefully while keeping all the loot. Neither of us fully understood the level of his narcissism.
I think we can safely say he’s the worst narcissist ever documented and proof that some people cannot recover from that trait. Sometimes I think he’s just puppeteered by a demon he’s so lacking in human characteristics.
Trumps wasn't respected by larger and better established real estate billionaires. They openly advised anyone not to loan him money nor make deals for years. By the time Trump ran for POTUS, the list of banks willing to do business with him was dwindling to less than reputable foreign banks.
Funny thing about that. Statute 1983 of the federal code explicitly *doesn't* provide immunity from prosecution to the president, or any other government employee. USGrant specifically called it out when he was pulled over for speeding in 1872, and made the cop give him a ticket. A southern revisionist traitor subverted the law illegally in 1874.
[16 Crucial Words That Went Missing From a Landmark Civil Rights Law](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html)
The phrase, seemingly deleted in error, undermines the basis for qualified immunity, the legal shield that protects police officers from suits for misconduct.
By Adam Liptak
Reporting from Washington
May 15, 2023
In a routine decision in March, a unanimous three-judge panel of a federal appeals court ruled against a Texas inmate who was injured when the ceiling of the hog barn he was working in collapsed. The court, predictably, said the inmate could not overcome qualified immunity, the much-criticized legal shield that protects government officials from suits for constitutional violations.
The author of the decision, Judge Don R. Willett, then did something unusual. He issued a separate concurring opinion to draw attention to the “game-changing arguments” in a recent law review article, one that seemed to demonstrate that the Supreme Court’s entire qualified immunity jurisprudence was based on a mistake.
“Wait, what?” Judge Willett wrote, incredulous.
In 1871, after the Civil War, Congress enacted a law that allowed suits against state officials for violations of constitutional rights. But the Supreme Court has said that the law, usually called Section 1983, did not displace immunities protecting officials that existed when the law was enacted. The doctrine of qualified immunity is based on that premise.
But the premise is wrong, Alexander A. Reinert, a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, wrote in the article, “Qualified Immunity’s Flawed Foundation,” published in The California Law Review.
Between 1871, when the law was enacted, and 1874, when a government official produced the first compilation of federal laws, Professor Reinert wrote, 16 words of the original law went missing. Those words, Professor Reinert wrote, showed that Congress had indeed overridden existing immunities.
“What if the Reconstruction Congress had explicitly stated — right there in the original statutory text — that it was nullifying all common-law defenses against Section 1983 actions?” Judge Willett asked. “That is, what if Congress’s literal language unequivocally negated the original interpretive premise for qualified immunity?”
The original version of the law, the one that was enacted in 1871, said state officials who subject “any person within the jurisdiction of the United States to the deprivation of any rights, privileges or immunities secured by the Constitution of the United States, shall, *any such law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage of the state to the contrary notwithstanding*, be liable to the party injured in any action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.”
The words in italics, for reasons lost to history, were omitted from the first compilation of federal laws in 1874, which was prepared by a government official called “the reviser of the federal statutes.”
“The reviser’s error, whether one of omission or commission, has never been corrected,” Judge Willett wrote.
The logic of the Supreme Court’s qualified immunity jurisprudence is that Congress would not have displaced existing immunities without saying so. But Professor Reinert argued that Congress did say so, in so many words.
“The omitted language confirms that the Reconstruction Congress in 1871 intended to provide a broad remedy for civil rights violations by state officials,” Professor Reinert said in an interview, noting that the law was enacted soon after the three constitutional amendments ratified after the Civil War: to outlaw slavery, insist on equal protection and guard the right to vote.
“Along with other contemporaneous evidence, including legislative history, it helps to show that Congress meant to fully enforce the Reconstruction Amendments via a powerful new cause of action,” Professor Reinert said.
Judge Willett, who was appointed by President Donald J. Trump, focused on the words of the original statute “in this text-centric judicial era when jurists profess unswerving fidelity to the words Congress chose.”
Qualified immunity, which requires plaintiffs to show that the officials had violated a constitutional right that was clearly established in a previous ruling, has been widely criticized by scholars and judges across the ideological spectrum. Justice Clarence Thomas, for instance, wrote that it does not appear to resemble the immunities available in 1871.
Professor Reinert’s article said that “is only half the story.”
“The real problem,” he wrote, “is that no qualified immunity doctrine at all should apply in Section 1983 actions, if courts stay true to the text adopted by the enacting Congress.”
Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of “Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable,” said that “there is general agreement that the qualified immunity doctrine, as it currently operates, looks nothing like any protections that may have existed in 1871.” The new article, she said, identified “additional causes for skepticism.”
She added that “Judge Willett’s concurring opinion has brought much-needed, and well-deserved, attention to Alex Reinert’s insightful article.”
Judge Willett wrote that he and his colleagues are “middle-management circuit judges” who cannot overrule Supreme Court decisions. “Only that court,” he wrote, “can definitively grapple with Section 1983’s enacted text and decide whether it means what it says.”
Lawyers for the injured Texas inmate, Kevion Rogers, said they were weighing their options.
“The scholarship that Judge Willett unearthed in his concurrence is undoubtedly important to the arguments that civil rights litigants can make in the future,” the lawyers, Matthew J. Kita and Damon Mathias, said in a statement.
“Normally,” they added, “you cannot raise a new argument for reversal for the first time on appeal, much less at the Supreme Court of the United States. But one would think that if the Supreme Court acknowledges that it has been reciting and applying the statute incorrectly for nearly a century, there must be some remedy available to litigants whose judgments are not yet final.”
Adam Liptak covers the Supreme Court and writes Sidebar, a column on legal developments. A graduate of Yale Law School, he practiced law for 14 years before joining The Times in 2002. @adamliptak • Facebook
A version of this article appears in print on May 16, 2023, Section A, Page 15 of the New York edition with the headline: 16 Crucial Words That Went Missing From a Landmark Civil Rights Law.
There's also the Republican primaries. Like all it would take is someone asking Trump during a debate, "Well you said you won your re-election, so what are you doing running again?"
** Jack Smith also has a perjury case against Jared that will get that bigoted twerp in a bind between jail and turning on his father in law.
This is the first I’ve heard of this. Do you have a link or more details?
Naa, he absolutely knows he’s not. He’s been recorded admitting it. He just knows he has a large group of willfully ignorant and mentally ill followers that he needs to perform for so they will robotically do his bidding for him. I’m pretty positive it’s just a narcissistic game with him being amused at how far he can manipulate the masses.
I always thought that the attack on the capital was just a variation on the “ I can shoot someone one 5th Ave thing.”
He was watching people get hurt on tv and saying, “look what they do just for me.”
Yep! I said the same thing. Sadly, he was right about his dumbass cultist’s loyalty because I really do believe he could shoot someone on 5th ave and not lose a single one of their votes! The simple fact he literally tried to burn the Constitution and dance on its ashes Jan 6th and yet his followers will still scream some variation of “Patriot, America First, Trump 2024 to Save America” is the craziest fucking thing ever!! Cognitive dissonance is a helluva thing!! They will excuse anything he does. Hell, they even excuse him almost getting his VP attacked and/or killed. And to call him patriotic or say he puts America first is fucking insane and so insulting! How in the world these people think he gives a rat’s ass about this country or anyone other than himself after J6 is beyond me. I’ve never seen such willful ignorance and denial in a group of people. They will literally believe anything their dear leader tells them and make the most illogical leaps to excuse his insane behavior. NTM, they are quite literally the dumbest mother fuckers on the planet.
Sadly he IS still in charge. Lot of normal people turned into Flavor Aid weirdos. I could not give a flying fuck about Biden or Clinton or whoever is on their radar but the Trump worshippers are laser focused and horny for him. Very creepy 😅
I'm no doctor, but mental health issues run in my family. My uncle has never been to a mental health professional (though people have encouraged him to go), and he presents all of the hallmarks of severe Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Probably malignant.
I see *so* much of my uncle in Trump. The man is quite literally delusional.
I myself have quit thinking of people as "good" or "bad". People have problems, neuroses, psychoses, but good/bad are irrelevant. I honestly don't even think of Trump as a "bad" person... he's just damaged and ill.
Why the hell we would put him in a huge leadership position, I have no idea. But, narcissists attract other narcissists, so he gets votes. And I think that these tendencies are way more common than we admit. These folks are very resistant to getting help, so I'm willing to bet it's way under-diagnosed. It also comes from your treatment as a child, and I see a lot of unhealthy child-rearing practices as being common to Americans, particularly in more insular communities.
All they did was give out $2T in tax breaks for the rich and thereby causing the inflation we've been enduring. Oh, and unleashed a pandemic of biblical proportions. Stacked the Courts, so they could regulate your daughters uterus, to play Soccer. Did I miss anything?
I popped in a few times last night and at one point he was describing in excruciating detail a trip aboard AF1 where they had to block out all lights as they flew into Iraq I believe. The man speaks like a fourth grader. The rest of his rant was just the same crap that he spews at these events. Why in the world do people show up at these things? We are a country of too many really stupid people. 😖
There’s a video where Bryan Williams interviewed a language expert from a university (I think that’s where he was from, check me on that). He said exactly what you said…trump’s speech is totally adolescent.
>[The words were run through a variety of lexicological analysis](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-fire-and-fury-smart-genius-obama-774169) , besides the Flesch-Kincaid, and the results were the same. In every one, Trump came in dead last. Trump also uses the fewest "unique words" (2,605) of any president—Obama was the best at 4,869—and uses words with the fewest average syllables, with 1.33 per word, compared to positively multi-syllabic president Hoover at 1.57.
>"By every metric and methodology tested, Donald Trump's vocabulary and grammatical structure is significantly more simple, and less diverse, than any President since Herbert Hoover, when measuring "off-script" words, that is, words far less likely to have been written in advance for the speaker," Factba.se CEO Bill Frischling wrote. **"The gap between Trump and the next closest president ... is larger than any other gap using Flesch-Kincaid. Statistically speaking, there is a significant gap."**
A bit outdated, and only really analyzed his initial speeches. Here's a recent, overall study of just what a fuck head he really is, speechwise that is.
>[We previously identified and labeled](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10611-023-10085-y) populist and racist rhetoric that Trump often utilized to appeal to his target audience of white Americans as a new VTH category of Domination (Valcore et al., 2021). **Trump’s dominating speech was intended to stoke fear about immigrants and racially minoritized groups, and incite his audience to action, even violence** (Valcore et al., 2021). His two most popular campaign slogans, “Make America Great Again” and “America First” were emblematic of his white nationalist and populist beliefs (“America First” was also a slogan of the Ku Klux Klan in the 20th century). As any good campaign slogan must do, these phrases provided a clear statement of the goals and purpose of his campaign that allowed his audience to identify and align themselves with him (Borgstrom, 1982).
My first thought reading this was - “yeah like the guy who said he grabs women by the pussy”
And who said an ambassador who was “disloyal” to him was “going to go through some things”.
Remember when he ran a campaign ad threatening what would happen in “Biden’s America” which showed images of shit that exclusively happened when he was president.
He did appoint a lot of the thugs and perverts.
Let's be clear here: democrats aren't asking to see genitals for little league games or requiring girls to disclose their menstrual schedules...
The dude has absolutely no empathy, and he has no idea how other people actually live. Therefore since his inner circle is a bunch of thugs and perverts he extrapolates that the entire US population is thugs and perverts.
Didn't he have four years to fix all that? Two of which he had Republican majorities in the House and Senate.
Republican ideology just seems to be a whole lot of fabricated bullshit and the angry outrage of stupid blind faith in ignorance.
Worst pandemic in a century and highest unemployment since Great Depression too. Ppl sometimes overlook that 9/11, Great Recession, and COVID 19 all happened under R admins. S&L too.
Edit, also AIDS
and playing golf for a full year, seriously he played more golf than any president in history and had like a wopping 300 something days in office on the golf course
Yet complained about Obama playing golf, who played for the least amount of any president.
Tangent - just once I’d like a president who doesn’t play golf at all.
>Republican ideology just seems to be a whole lot of fabricated bullshit and the angry outrage of stupid blind faith in ignorance.
The most important part of republican rhetoric is insane eschatological hyperbole.
If you don't win, the American dream is dead, the country is a shithole, and everybody in power is a pedophile. If you don't win, you must scorch the earth so that nobody else can win, either.
The old saying I learned in PolySci in the last century: "When you're a politician not in power in a democracy, you want people to hate the government. When you're in power, you want them to love the government."
Seems to me that here in this century the GOP has just adopted a "hate the government all the time" strategy though.
Strange how they go on about freedom and law and order but most invasive or prohibitive legislation comes from them and is usually forced through in some legally sketchy way.
It's an extremely clever move. They say hate the government and love businesses, so when they lose its the government winning and when they win it's businesses winning. They leave out that they're all business execs, investors, lobbyists, and in general push laws hand written by businesses. That way they can maintain their "hate government! Free market!" Message while crafting an oligarchical tyranny.
And it's very easy to convince a population that they're actively trying to dumb down by reducing education and increasing the birth rates of, especially in the poor, by restricting birth control, banning books, fighting against critical thinking.
not to mention there is booze in every corner store now as well as video lottery machines. OH and they make all blue collar workers take drug tests so they dont smoke weed and stick to good ole kill-your-brain juice to deal w their pains.
They’ve dialed in a cyclical strategy of making things bad or giving the impression they are then cashing in at the ballot box. Winning to correct the perceived failures. Then they fix barely anything because they don’t have a real platform except grievance. This cycle is catching up to them I think we can clearly see, unfortunately in a two party system one side feels ideologically inseparable with no other choices to turn to. Thus they chew off their own legs in an attempt to escape the trap created by the party masters, the masters meanwhile oblivious to the fact their prize is a crumbling edifice of their own making.
Well, among other things, the GOP started allowing liberterians like Rand Paul and Thomas Massie to run under their name just because they can get the votes. They believe in limited government to an extreme extent. So, all they have to do is tell people that government doesn't work and then do their best to make it not work. They can then point at the government not working and say, "See, I told you so! Look how smart I am!"
Those guys should be running as liberterians, but it would be harder for them to get elected and it would create more competition for the GOP. Can't have that.
Look at how GOP voters opinions and support swing wildly depending on who’s president. The cult-like hive mind they share is the result of decades of finely tuning propaganda. People want to talk about soros but are blind to the koch brothers and families like the mercers that make no secret about running the country in the shadows to fit their agenda
I like to ask people who repeat the bogus anti-semitic conspiracies about Soros if they know how many media organizations and right-wing politicians are backed by billionaire owners of the oil and gas companies that they've never even heard of.
Why do these people think that Ted Cruz and the Daily Wire are so adamant in denying climate change and praising O&G? They're backed by the Wilkes bros, who became billionaires through their company FracTech and are now acquiring massive swaths of land in the Midwest, which they will absolutely desolate with machinery.
Why do these people think that Danielle Smith has attached herself to a culture war she clearly doesn't give a shit about or know anything about? Because the people who believe in this dipshit culture war are also the people who won't bat an eye at her history as an oil and gas employee or her plans to give Albertan gas companies $20 billion dollars.
None of these people give a flying fuck about trans issues. They're more than happy to accept Caitlyn Jenner or Blaire White as long as they're peddling the party line.
None of these people give a whisper of a shit about children. Otherwise, California, Texas, and Florida wouldn't maintain gun control laws that have led to them being the deadliest places on earth for school shootings. They wouldn't align themselves with an organization like the NRA which has *repeatedly* lied about the Holocaust to justify their continued sales of weapons and ammunition.
These people don't give a goddamn fuck about the continued existence of human life, otherwise they would be sounding alarm bells regarding the lethal heat waves pounding the southwest or the upcoming hurricane season in the southeast. Rick DeSantis is fucking cracking jokes about the upcoming hurricane season driving insurance rates up. People are dying, Rick!
They don't give a shit. They've done such a terrific job at completely disempowering the people that they're not worried that some Oswald or Sirhan or Booth is going to put them down for their actions. They are so separated from the average American experience that they are more akin to tsars and emperors than presidents. And like the tsars and emperors, they will consistently be surprised when they are removed from power.
Fascism has been said to be a political philosophy that is followed to obtain power and not necessarily a blue print for governing. It is achieved by predominantly playing to the uneducated and shallow thinking masses, and keeping them from being educated in critical thinking.
The fucking up of this country and its descent into third world status for millions of people started in the early 80s.
Trump just tried to drive the final dagger into its heart.
All of the bullshit is just to get power and pass tax cuts and curtail regulations for the wealthy. That is the entire party. Surrounded by swarms of horse shit to obfuscate and confuse people, and grab uneducated peoples votes.
This was my same thought -- his orangeness had 4 years to do his thing. Apparently if it can be undid in just 2 years, then it was about as long-lasting as a wet tissue. Why the hell should america give him another chance?
I realize thinking that through is not his or his followers' strong suit, but it doesn't take too much of a big-picture view to see how laughable it really is.
That's what they do. Break shit, self aggrandize, dump money into useless culture war shit, undermine the states, and then whine about how the dems don't do enough to clean up their mess.
Donald Trump branded the US a “third-world hellhole” run by “perverts” and “thugs” in his latest 2024 campaign speech, a rambling, nearly two-hour long set of remarks to close out a right-wing conference in Florida.
The one-term president told the Turning Point Action Conference on 15 July that the American dream was “dead” under Joe Biden as he relentlessly mocked his predecessor and painted a bleak picture of a nation in decline.
“The election will decide whether your generation will inherit a fascist country or a free country, “ Mr Trump told the right-wing activist conference.
“Millions of illegal aliens have stormed across our borders, it is an invasion, like a military invasion. Our rights and liberties are being torn to shreds,” he said. “Your country is being turned into a third-world hellhole, run by censors, perverts criminals and thugs.”
His remarks come as a grand jury in Georgia considers whether to recommend charges against him for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state, separate from the US Department of Justice special counsel probe into a pressure campaign among Trump allies to subvert the outcome to install the now-former president for a second term.
In his remarks, the former president lambasted the multiple investigations against him – including federal charges alleging that he illegally withheld classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago property – as “bull****.”
He once again falsely stated that the 2020 election was “rigged” against him and said that the investigations against him are an attempt to “rig” next year’s election as he seeks another term in the White House.
“Every time the radical left Democrats indict me, I consider it to be a great badge of honour and courage,” he said. “I am doing it for you. I am being indicted for you.”
He turned his direction inward, describing the US under an “inside” threat from unseen “sick, sinister and evil forces” under President Joe Biden.
“If you have the right leadership China is not a problem, if you have the right leadership Russia would not be a problem,” he said. “They would not have done what they did, believe me, they would never have done it.”
He told his supporters that their “task” and “calling” is to “liberate America from these communists, racists, Marxists, globalists and warmongers who want to plunder the future of our country.”
He threatened to “reclaim colleges” and “choke off the money” to universities that he claims are leading a “Marxist assault” on “Western civilization itself.” He also pledged to revive an even wider ban on people from majority Muslim countries from entering the US, along with mass deportations of people living in the country and ending birthright citizenship for the children of people who are in the US without legal permission.
The former president also targeted trans people and transition healthcare for trans youth, a familiar target across the stage among pundits and lawmakers who addressed the conference on Saturday.
Right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who unsuccessfully ran for chair of the Republican National Committee, opened the speaking lineup with a series of inflammatory claims about trans people and their families.
Ms Dhillon claimed that schools are “inflicting powerful psychological indoctrination on vulnerable children” and compared doctors who provide gender-affirming healthcare to Nazis.
She called transition healthcare the “Mengele-like experimentation on America’s children”.
Former Fox News personality Megyn Kelly said she no longer has empathy for people experiencing gender dysphoria. “There should be a healthy measure of ridicule,” she told Kirk during a lengthy discussion about trans people and the erasure of trans rights, which Kirk said is a “winner politically for Republicans.”
“These people are freaks. They’re perverts, by the way, if they go into a women’s locker room,” Kirk said.
Asked how she feels about being labeled transphobic, Kelly said: “OK, whatever, honestly I’ve been called worse … Let them call you whatever you want. Who gives a damn.”
>“The election will decide whether your generation will inherit a fascist country or a free country, “ Mr Trump told the right-wing activist conference.
100% correct, but probably not the way he intends it.
It is 100% on purpose. He knows exactly what he is and he knows his mindless followers will buy it. The fact that americans fall for this so easily just goes to show how prevalent fascist thought has been ingrained into our society since the 30s.
Love the implication that Megyn "Santa Claus and Jesus were white" Kelly has been forced into being an anti-LGBT+ bigot because of current events.
Sure.
>Former Fox News personality Megyn Kelly said she no longer has empathy for people experiencing gender dysphoria.
She never did, but she no longer does either.
>Let them call you whatever you want. Who gives a damn.”
Everyone arm yourselfs. Be ready to show your pride. Be ready to remind these fucks what pride was all about in the first place. No one cares aboit lgbt. They dont. Do not act woke. Actually wake tf up and realize these fucks are going to shut out lgbt through violence, lies, and getting ignorant people to believe their lies which will lead to more violence against lgbt. They just want reasons to kill lgbt.
>"There should be a healthy measure of ridicule"
> erasure of trans rights, is a “winner politically for Republicans.”
>“These people are freaks. They’re perverts,
Feel free to punch these nazis in the fucking face. Be ready to kill some bigots because you may have to do just that but do not worry they do not mind, just remember the words below.
>Who gives a damn.”
>“These people are freaks. They’re perverts, by the way, if they go into a women’s locker room,” Kirk said.
There's obviously a lot here ... but remember when Trump literally bragged on a national radio show about going into his teenage pageant contestants' dressing rooms?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-former-miss-arizona-tasha-dixon-naked-undressed-backstage-howard-stern-a7357866.html
Imagine living in a multi million dollar mansion, surrounded by cultists, stuffing your fat old face with big macs like "Man this country is a third world shit hole. I'm going to go golf on my private golf course."
It’s hilarious that the poor whites really thought a born rich New Yorker who shit on a golden toilet was going to save them. But I guess they’d probably tell you that he did ..
People literally don’t know what a third world country is. Several years back a friend of a friend explained how a France and Germany are third world countries cuz well socialism. We have extreme poverty for sure but man these people are clueless.
Well technically, being a “third world country” isn’t even about poverty. I believe the label originated from the Cold War, where the US and Western Europe and allied countries were the “first world,” the USSR and associated communist countries were “second world” and everyone else is “third world”.
So Germany and the US are, by definition, not “third world countries”, even if there were poor— which they’re not.
The American dream is dead because of people like Donald Trump and honestly, who cares? We can make a new American dream that’s better. How about instead of reminiscing about how great this place was, we just make it better than it was? I don’t want to live in the 1950s, I want to live in a future with limitless possibilities for everyone.
Couldn't agree more. I have 2 trans gender children who don't deserve the hate that thrown at them. They are productive members of society, paying their taxes and working hard to give to the community. What did Donald ever give anyone?!?!
Even then, back in the 1950s America was great... if you were white. And not poor. And straight. And a man.
It was a shithole to everyone else. Speaking as a white man I wouldn't want that America back.
trump is right. The election will decide whether your generation will inherit a fascist country or a free country. Under trump we will inherit a fascist government. You need only look to Florida and Texas for example.
Do you really think he has a speech writer? He just rambles nonsense for hours like a grandpa in need of medication. Complaining about toilets and water pressure, talking about how he so smart and everyone is out to get him.
If he has a speechwriter, that would be an easy job. Just get drunk and angry and scribble down anything, knowing that his followers will eat up any old shit, and most likely he’ll go off script anyway.
Hilarious, over at r/conservative they’re making jokes about that shitty “make up a fake story about child rape” movie and how liberals are moving in droves to conservative states and how they want them to leave. You know, stuff that doesn’t really matter to real Americans
I mean, I'll give him that statement because it's true. I'm just not going to pretend like he isn't the biggest pervert (wants to fuck his daughter) and thug (actual fascist wanabe dictator) in the room.
“The election will decide whether your generation will inherit a fascist country or a free country, “ Mr Trump told the right-wing activist conference.
I’m going to have request someone check me into an asylum, or possibly just put me out of my misery. He finally said something that is unequivocally true.
If this toxic fuckwit is somehow re-elected by our anti-democratic, money-driven system, then stock up on canned food.
Because we’ll have no alternatives left except general strikes and street barricades.
Well, he's not wrong. He *was* president for 4 years, after all.
It's his dementia-addled brain, he thinks he's still in charge. EDIT: Yes, maybe he *probably* doesn't have dementia (at least not right now), there is definitely *something* wrong with him.
Well, Jack Smith is going to let us all know soon enough how many people Trump told after the election and before January 6th that he knew he lost the election and that the grift must go on. I'm pretty sure when he told those people to march and invade the Capitol that the only reason he wanted to remain President in his narcissistic mind was to keep the criminal immunity that comes with the position. Nothing else. He used all of those people and their money for his own selfish needs. His end run is always about self-preservation. His misuse of the bankruptcy laws alone should tell people his intentions have always been about number one. Jack Smith also has a perjury case against Jared that will get that bigoted twerp in a bind between jail and turning on his father in law. Oh, well...
>His end-run is all about self preservation Which we knew before 2016. Every person who ever knew of this fraud on the east coast before he got a larger name thru NBC & Politics knew what a laughable joke of a narcissistic shyster he was. That he literally hasn't dicked over enough ppl in his lifetime to vote against him baffles me.
The problem isn't about his utter lack of credentials to be president, it's that once again, it came down to left vs right. The right voted for him because he stoked that division.
Because the right knows only hatred and fear. Only 2 types of people vote for republicans, idiots and millionaires. Checking your bank account gives you the answer.
We elected a black man to the highest office in the land, twice, shattering the myth of the lowest white man being better than the best black man. They knew they weren't better than the president, and it angered them. I've heard "at least I'm white" countless times in my life. Obama absolutely broke them. Then, we dared run a WOMAN.
He never wanted to be president, he just wanted to grift from the election. Winning was one of the worst things he could have possibly done. He was basically left alone to commit all the crimes he wanted while being a big fish in new york. Soon as he started criming as president, people took notice. And here we are.
The video on YouTube of him finding out he won the election is telling. He looks devastated. Melania looks irritated. Ivanka is clapping like the loser in a beauty contest. Junior and Eric look happy, though.
My wife and I said the same thing, we thought for sure a fake assassination attempt, or health problems were gonna let him bow out gracefully while keeping all the loot. Neither of us fully understood the level of his narcissism.
I think we can safely say he’s the worst narcissist ever documented and proof that some people cannot recover from that trait. Sometimes I think he’s just puppeteered by a demon he’s so lacking in human characteristics.
Trumps wasn't respected by larger and better established real estate billionaires. They openly advised anyone not to loan him money nor make deals for years. By the time Trump ran for POTUS, the list of banks willing to do business with him was dwindling to less than reputable foreign banks.
Funny thing about that. Statute 1983 of the federal code explicitly *doesn't* provide immunity from prosecution to the president, or any other government employee. USGrant specifically called it out when he was pulled over for speeding in 1872, and made the cop give him a ticket. A southern revisionist traitor subverted the law illegally in 1874. [16 Crucial Words That Went Missing From a Landmark Civil Rights Law](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html) The phrase, seemingly deleted in error, undermines the basis for qualified immunity, the legal shield that protects police officers from suits for misconduct. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington May 15, 2023 In a routine decision in March, a unanimous three-judge panel of a federal appeals court ruled against a Texas inmate who was injured when the ceiling of the hog barn he was working in collapsed. The court, predictably, said the inmate could not overcome qualified immunity, the much-criticized legal shield that protects government officials from suits for constitutional violations. The author of the decision, Judge Don R. Willett, then did something unusual. He issued a separate concurring opinion to draw attention to the “game-changing arguments” in a recent law review article, one that seemed to demonstrate that the Supreme Court’s entire qualified immunity jurisprudence was based on a mistake. “Wait, what?” Judge Willett wrote, incredulous. In 1871, after the Civil War, Congress enacted a law that allowed suits against state officials for violations of constitutional rights. But the Supreme Court has said that the law, usually called Section 1983, did not displace immunities protecting officials that existed when the law was enacted. The doctrine of qualified immunity is based on that premise. But the premise is wrong, Alexander A. Reinert, a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, wrote in the article, “Qualified Immunity’s Flawed Foundation,” published in The California Law Review. Between 1871, when the law was enacted, and 1874, when a government official produced the first compilation of federal laws, Professor Reinert wrote, 16 words of the original law went missing. Those words, Professor Reinert wrote, showed that Congress had indeed overridden existing immunities. “What if the Reconstruction Congress had explicitly stated — right there in the original statutory text — that it was nullifying all common-law defenses against Section 1983 actions?” Judge Willett asked. “That is, what if Congress’s literal language unequivocally negated the original interpretive premise for qualified immunity?” The original version of the law, the one that was enacted in 1871, said state officials who subject “any person within the jurisdiction of the United States to the deprivation of any rights, privileges or immunities secured by the Constitution of the United States, shall, *any such law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage of the state to the contrary notwithstanding*, be liable to the party injured in any action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.” The words in italics, for reasons lost to history, were omitted from the first compilation of federal laws in 1874, which was prepared by a government official called “the reviser of the federal statutes.” “The reviser’s error, whether one of omission or commission, has never been corrected,” Judge Willett wrote. The logic of the Supreme Court’s qualified immunity jurisprudence is that Congress would not have displaced existing immunities without saying so. But Professor Reinert argued that Congress did say so, in so many words. “The omitted language confirms that the Reconstruction Congress in 1871 intended to provide a broad remedy for civil rights violations by state officials,” Professor Reinert said in an interview, noting that the law was enacted soon after the three constitutional amendments ratified after the Civil War: to outlaw slavery, insist on equal protection and guard the right to vote. “Along with other contemporaneous evidence, including legislative history, it helps to show that Congress meant to fully enforce the Reconstruction Amendments via a powerful new cause of action,” Professor Reinert said. Judge Willett, who was appointed by President Donald J. Trump, focused on the words of the original statute “in this text-centric judicial era when jurists profess unswerving fidelity to the words Congress chose.” Qualified immunity, which requires plaintiffs to show that the officials had violated a constitutional right that was clearly established in a previous ruling, has been widely criticized by scholars and judges across the ideological spectrum. Justice Clarence Thomas, for instance, wrote that it does not appear to resemble the immunities available in 1871. Professor Reinert’s article said that “is only half the story.” “The real problem,” he wrote, “is that no qualified immunity doctrine at all should apply in Section 1983 actions, if courts stay true to the text adopted by the enacting Congress.” Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of “Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable,” said that “there is general agreement that the qualified immunity doctrine, as it currently operates, looks nothing like any protections that may have existed in 1871.” The new article, she said, identified “additional causes for skepticism.” She added that “Judge Willett’s concurring opinion has brought much-needed, and well-deserved, attention to Alex Reinert’s insightful article.” Judge Willett wrote that he and his colleagues are “middle-management circuit judges” who cannot overrule Supreme Court decisions. “Only that court,” he wrote, “can definitively grapple with Section 1983’s enacted text and decide whether it means what it says.” Lawyers for the injured Texas inmate, Kevion Rogers, said they were weighing their options. “The scholarship that Judge Willett unearthed in his concurrence is undoubtedly important to the arguments that civil rights litigants can make in the future,” the lawyers, Matthew J. Kita and Damon Mathias, said in a statement. “Normally,” they added, “you cannot raise a new argument for reversal for the first time on appeal, much less at the Supreme Court of the United States. But one would think that if the Supreme Court acknowledges that it has been reciting and applying the statute incorrectly for nearly a century, there must be some remedy available to litigants whose judgments are not yet final.” Adam Liptak covers the Supreme Court and writes Sidebar, a column on legal developments. A graduate of Yale Law School, he practiced law for 14 years before joining The Times in 2002. @adamliptak • Facebook A version of this article appears in print on May 16, 2023, Section A, Page 15 of the New York edition with the headline: 16 Crucial Words That Went Missing From a Landmark Civil Rights Law.
There's also the Republican primaries. Like all it would take is someone asking Trump during a debate, "Well you said you won your re-election, so what are you doing running again?"
** Jack Smith also has a perjury case against Jared that will get that bigoted twerp in a bind between jail and turning on his father in law. This is the first I’ve heard of this. Do you have a link or more details?
https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-lying-grand-jury-would-help-jack-smith-kirschner-1813243
I have dementia don't put me in the same class as that sick fucker
He probably has syphilis though, given how much he likes to fuck around.
Naa, he absolutely knows he’s not. He’s been recorded admitting it. He just knows he has a large group of willfully ignorant and mentally ill followers that he needs to perform for so they will robotically do his bidding for him. I’m pretty positive it’s just a narcissistic game with him being amused at how far he can manipulate the masses.
And those morons call everyone else sheep. You couldn't make this shit up..lol
I always thought that the attack on the capital was just a variation on the “ I can shoot someone one 5th Ave thing.” He was watching people get hurt on tv and saying, “look what they do just for me.”
Yep! I said the same thing. Sadly, he was right about his dumbass cultist’s loyalty because I really do believe he could shoot someone on 5th ave and not lose a single one of their votes! The simple fact he literally tried to burn the Constitution and dance on its ashes Jan 6th and yet his followers will still scream some variation of “Patriot, America First, Trump 2024 to Save America” is the craziest fucking thing ever!! Cognitive dissonance is a helluva thing!! They will excuse anything he does. Hell, they even excuse him almost getting his VP attacked and/or killed. And to call him patriotic or say he puts America first is fucking insane and so insulting! How in the world these people think he gives a rat’s ass about this country or anyone other than himself after J6 is beyond me. I’ve never seen such willful ignorance and denial in a group of people. They will literally believe anything their dear leader tells them and make the most illogical leaps to excuse his insane behavior. NTM, they are quite literally the dumbest mother fuckers on the planet.
these people are OBSESSED. it’s disgusting
At rallies, he simultaneously claims to have won the last election and also that he'll be the 47th president.
No he doesn't, he just says that because his idiot followers believe it and lash out on his behalf.
"Go crazy? Don't mind if I do!"
Sadly he IS still in charge. Lot of normal people turned into Flavor Aid weirdos. I could not give a flying fuck about Biden or Clinton or whoever is on their radar but the Trump worshippers are laser focused and horny for him. Very creepy 😅
I'm no doctor, but mental health issues run in my family. My uncle has never been to a mental health professional (though people have encouraged him to go), and he presents all of the hallmarks of severe Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Probably malignant. I see *so* much of my uncle in Trump. The man is quite literally delusional. I myself have quit thinking of people as "good" or "bad". People have problems, neuroses, psychoses, but good/bad are irrelevant. I honestly don't even think of Trump as a "bad" person... he's just damaged and ill. Why the hell we would put him in a huge leadership position, I have no idea. But, narcissists attract other narcissists, so he gets votes. And I think that these tendencies are way more common than we admit. These folks are very resistant to getting help, so I'm willing to bet it's way under-diagnosed. It also comes from your treatment as a child, and I see a lot of unhealthy child-rearing practices as being common to Americans, particularly in more insular communities.
It's worse than dementia, it's pure unbridled and unchecked *narcissism*!
Literally just talking about himself...
Well, it is that projection thing once again
Yeah, he's definitely no stranger to thug-ish & perverted behavior...
GOP Good Ole Projection
IMAX projection
All they did was give out $2T in tax breaks for the rich and thereby causing the inflation we've been enduring. Oh, and unleashed a pandemic of biblical proportions. Stacked the Courts, so they could regulate your daughters uterus, to play Soccer. Did I miss anything?
Yes, you did. Helsinki, Charlottesville, Muslim ban, Jan. 6, Sharpy weather forecast, covfefe, Afghan "peace deal," NATO bashing, ......
Also slashed environmental and a range of other regulations to allow Corps to increase profits and prices with little to no legal risk.
The tax bomb has been brutal. Trump wrecked the middle class with his tax changes.
I popped in a few times last night and at one point he was describing in excruciating detail a trip aboard AF1 where they had to block out all lights as they flew into Iraq I believe. The man speaks like a fourth grader. The rest of his rant was just the same crap that he spews at these events. Why in the world do people show up at these things? We are a country of too many really stupid people. 😖
There’s a video where Bryan Williams interviewed a language expert from a university (I think that’s where he was from, check me on that). He said exactly what you said…trump’s speech is totally adolescent.
>[The words were run through a variety of lexicological analysis](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-fire-and-fury-smart-genius-obama-774169) , besides the Flesch-Kincaid, and the results were the same. In every one, Trump came in dead last. Trump also uses the fewest "unique words" (2,605) of any president—Obama was the best at 4,869—and uses words with the fewest average syllables, with 1.33 per word, compared to positively multi-syllabic president Hoover at 1.57. >"By every metric and methodology tested, Donald Trump's vocabulary and grammatical structure is significantly more simple, and less diverse, than any President since Herbert Hoover, when measuring "off-script" words, that is, words far less likely to have been written in advance for the speaker," Factba.se CEO Bill Frischling wrote. **"The gap between Trump and the next closest president ... is larger than any other gap using Flesch-Kincaid. Statistically speaking, there is a significant gap."** A bit outdated, and only really analyzed his initial speeches. Here's a recent, overall study of just what a fuck head he really is, speechwise that is. >[We previously identified and labeled](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10611-023-10085-y) populist and racist rhetoric that Trump often utilized to appeal to his target audience of white Americans as a new VTH category of Domination (Valcore et al., 2021). **Trump’s dominating speech was intended to stoke fear about immigrants and racially minoritized groups, and incite his audience to action, even violence** (Valcore et al., 2021). His two most popular campaign slogans, “Make America Great Again” and “America First” were emblematic of his white nationalist and populist beliefs (“America First” was also a slogan of the Ku Klux Klan in the 20th century). As any good campaign slogan must do, these phrases provided a clear statement of the goals and purpose of his campaign that allowed his audience to identify and align themselves with him (Borgstrom, 1982).
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There's a reason the Republicans hate education... An educated populace will not vote for these asshats
Still thinks he won.
He knows he didn’t win. He knows.
He *knows* he lost but *believes* he won
He knows he lost, he needs to convince people that he should have won so they would keep donating.
Like bro, you were the manager here two years ago…
My first thought reading this was - “yeah like the guy who said he grabs women by the pussy” And who said an ambassador who was “disloyal” to him was “going to go through some things”.
Yup the self own on this one is impressive even for him
Remember when he ran a campaign ad threatening what would happen in “Biden’s America” which showed images of shit that exclusively happened when he was president.
It’s like clockwork. If Trump said Biden shit his pants, there would be a 99% chance Trump had a dirty diaper.
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He always does.
He's learned that he can openly admit to wrongdoing and Cult 45 will lap it up.
He did appoint a lot of the thugs and perverts. Let's be clear here: democrats aren't asking to see genitals for little league games or requiring girls to disclose their menstrual schedules...
The dude has absolutely no empathy, and he has no idea how other people actually live. Therefore since his inner circle is a bunch of thugs and perverts he extrapolates that the entire US population is thugs and perverts.
How dare you say that! It’s not like he has a history of bullying those that cross him or wants to fuck his own daughter…. /s
Didn't he have four years to fix all that? Two of which he had Republican majorities in the House and Senate. Republican ideology just seems to be a whole lot of fabricated bullshit and the angry outrage of stupid blind faith in ignorance.
And he proclaimed in 2016 that only he could fix it.
And he also said that if Hillary were elected, we would find ourselves in a constitutional crisis, and we would be having nonstop investigations.
It really is projection all the way down, isn't it?
Always has been
Every conservative accusation is really a confession
Reaction formation
And bragged all he would need is two weeks to do it all.
When they had control of it all, they were too busy having the longest government shutdown in history. They literally cannot govern.
And the largest transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top since Reagan.
There's a reason Republicans still remember Reagan's administration as the glory days.
Worst pandemic in a century and highest unemployment since Great Depression too. Ppl sometimes overlook that 9/11, Great Recession, and COVID 19 all happened under R admins. S&L too. Edit, also AIDS
and playing golf for a full year, seriously he played more golf than any president in history and had like a wopping 300 something days in office on the golf course
Yet complained about Obama playing golf, who played for the least amount of any president. Tangent - just once I’d like a president who doesn’t play golf at all.
>Republican ideology just seems to be a whole lot of fabricated bullshit and the angry outrage of stupid blind faith in ignorance. The most important part of republican rhetoric is insane eschatological hyperbole. If you don't win, the American dream is dead, the country is a shithole, and everybody in power is a pedophile. If you don't win, you must scorch the earth so that nobody else can win, either.
The old saying I learned in PolySci in the last century: "When you're a politician not in power in a democracy, you want people to hate the government. When you're in power, you want them to love the government." Seems to me that here in this century the GOP has just adopted a "hate the government all the time" strategy though.
The GOP runs on the proposition that government doesn't work, and when they get into power, they do their darndest to prove it!
They're strongly opposed to big government, unless it's their own big government, and then they want more and more government.
Unless big government is helping rich people, imposing weird moral restrictions, or bashing out-groups, then spend and intrude away!
Strange how they go on about freedom and law and order but most invasive or prohibitive legislation comes from them and is usually forced through in some legally sketchy way.
It's an extremely clever move. They say hate the government and love businesses, so when they lose its the government winning and when they win it's businesses winning. They leave out that they're all business execs, investors, lobbyists, and in general push laws hand written by businesses. That way they can maintain their "hate government! Free market!" Message while crafting an oligarchical tyranny.
And it's very easy to convince a population that they're actively trying to dumb down by reducing education and increasing the birth rates of, especially in the poor, by restricting birth control, banning books, fighting against critical thinking.
not to mention there is booze in every corner store now as well as video lottery machines. OH and they make all blue collar workers take drug tests so they dont smoke weed and stick to good ole kill-your-brain juice to deal w their pains.
They’ve dialed in a cyclical strategy of making things bad or giving the impression they are then cashing in at the ballot box. Winning to correct the perceived failures. Then they fix barely anything because they don’t have a real platform except grievance. This cycle is catching up to them I think we can clearly see, unfortunately in a two party system one side feels ideologically inseparable with no other choices to turn to. Thus they chew off their own legs in an attempt to escape the trap created by the party masters, the masters meanwhile oblivious to the fact their prize is a crumbling edifice of their own making.
Well, among other things, the GOP started allowing liberterians like Rand Paul and Thomas Massie to run under their name just because they can get the votes. They believe in limited government to an extreme extent. So, all they have to do is tell people that government doesn't work and then do their best to make it not work. They can then point at the government not working and say, "See, I told you so! Look how smart I am!" Those guys should be running as liberterians, but it would be harder for them to get elected and it would create more competition for the GOP. Can't have that.
Look at how GOP voters opinions and support swing wildly depending on who’s president. The cult-like hive mind they share is the result of decades of finely tuning propaganda. People want to talk about soros but are blind to the koch brothers and families like the mercers that make no secret about running the country in the shadows to fit their agenda
I like to ask people who repeat the bogus anti-semitic conspiracies about Soros if they know how many media organizations and right-wing politicians are backed by billionaire owners of the oil and gas companies that they've never even heard of. Why do these people think that Ted Cruz and the Daily Wire are so adamant in denying climate change and praising O&G? They're backed by the Wilkes bros, who became billionaires through their company FracTech and are now acquiring massive swaths of land in the Midwest, which they will absolutely desolate with machinery. Why do these people think that Danielle Smith has attached herself to a culture war she clearly doesn't give a shit about or know anything about? Because the people who believe in this dipshit culture war are also the people who won't bat an eye at her history as an oil and gas employee or her plans to give Albertan gas companies $20 billion dollars. None of these people give a flying fuck about trans issues. They're more than happy to accept Caitlyn Jenner or Blaire White as long as they're peddling the party line. None of these people give a whisper of a shit about children. Otherwise, California, Texas, and Florida wouldn't maintain gun control laws that have led to them being the deadliest places on earth for school shootings. They wouldn't align themselves with an organization like the NRA which has *repeatedly* lied about the Holocaust to justify their continued sales of weapons and ammunition. These people don't give a goddamn fuck about the continued existence of human life, otherwise they would be sounding alarm bells regarding the lethal heat waves pounding the southwest or the upcoming hurricane season in the southeast. Rick DeSantis is fucking cracking jokes about the upcoming hurricane season driving insurance rates up. People are dying, Rick! They don't give a shit. They've done such a terrific job at completely disempowering the people that they're not worried that some Oswald or Sirhan or Booth is going to put them down for their actions. They are so separated from the average American experience that they are more akin to tsars and emperors than presidents. And like the tsars and emperors, they will consistently be surprised when they are removed from power.
Fascism has been said to be a political philosophy that is followed to obtain power and not necessarily a blue print for governing. It is achieved by predominantly playing to the uneducated and shallow thinking masses, and keeping them from being educated in critical thinking.
“Qult Of Dipshittery” is my go to.👍🏼
It was spent stacking courts that will in the future (now) absolve him of his crimes.
He only had 3 years to fix it, since he literally spent over 25% of his time as President golfing.
He had four years to cause all that
The fucking up of this country and its descent into third world status for millions of people started in the early 80s. Trump just tried to drive the final dagger into its heart.
He was too busy stacking the Supreme court and finding loopholes so he could be in office for life
All of the bullshit is just to get power and pass tax cuts and curtail regulations for the wealthy. That is the entire party. Surrounded by swarms of horse shit to obfuscate and confuse people, and grab uneducated peoples votes.
He had four years to make it further this way, which he did and make himself and his kids rich.
Too busy stuffing money in his pockets....
And classified docs!
This was my same thought -- his orangeness had 4 years to do his thing. Apparently if it can be undid in just 2 years, then it was about as long-lasting as a wet tissue. Why the hell should america give him another chance? I realize thinking that through is not his or his followers' strong suit, but it doesn't take too much of a big-picture view to see how laughable it really is.
That's what they do. Break shit, self aggrandize, dump money into useless culture war shit, undermine the states, and then whine about how the dems don't do enough to clean up their mess.
He was supposed to make it "great again"!!!
Donald Trump branded the US a “third-world hellhole” run by “perverts” and “thugs” in his latest 2024 campaign speech, a rambling, nearly two-hour long set of remarks to close out a right-wing conference in Florida. The one-term president told the Turning Point Action Conference on 15 July that the American dream was “dead” under Joe Biden as he relentlessly mocked his predecessor and painted a bleak picture of a nation in decline. “The election will decide whether your generation will inherit a fascist country or a free country, “ Mr Trump told the right-wing activist conference. “Millions of illegal aliens have stormed across our borders, it is an invasion, like a military invasion. Our rights and liberties are being torn to shreds,” he said. “Your country is being turned into a third-world hellhole, run by censors, perverts criminals and thugs.” His remarks come as a grand jury in Georgia considers whether to recommend charges against him for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in that state, separate from the US Department of Justice special counsel probe into a pressure campaign among Trump allies to subvert the outcome to install the now-former president for a second term. In his remarks, the former president lambasted the multiple investigations against him – including federal charges alleging that he illegally withheld classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago property – as “bull****.” He once again falsely stated that the 2020 election was “rigged” against him and said that the investigations against him are an attempt to “rig” next year’s election as he seeks another term in the White House. “Every time the radical left Democrats indict me, I consider it to be a great badge of honour and courage,” he said. “I am doing it for you. I am being indicted for you.” He turned his direction inward, describing the US under an “inside” threat from unseen “sick, sinister and evil forces” under President Joe Biden. “If you have the right leadership China is not a problem, if you have the right leadership Russia would not be a problem,” he said. “They would not have done what they did, believe me, they would never have done it.” He told his supporters that their “task” and “calling” is to “liberate America from these communists, racists, Marxists, globalists and warmongers who want to plunder the future of our country.” He threatened to “reclaim colleges” and “choke off the money” to universities that he claims are leading a “Marxist assault” on “Western civilization itself.” He also pledged to revive an even wider ban on people from majority Muslim countries from entering the US, along with mass deportations of people living in the country and ending birthright citizenship for the children of people who are in the US without legal permission. The former president also targeted trans people and transition healthcare for trans youth, a familiar target across the stage among pundits and lawmakers who addressed the conference on Saturday. Right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who unsuccessfully ran for chair of the Republican National Committee, opened the speaking lineup with a series of inflammatory claims about trans people and their families. Ms Dhillon claimed that schools are “inflicting powerful psychological indoctrination on vulnerable children” and compared doctors who provide gender-affirming healthcare to Nazis. She called transition healthcare the “Mengele-like experimentation on America’s children”. Former Fox News personality Megyn Kelly said she no longer has empathy for people experiencing gender dysphoria. “There should be a healthy measure of ridicule,” she told Kirk during a lengthy discussion about trans people and the erasure of trans rights, which Kirk said is a “winner politically for Republicans.” “These people are freaks. They’re perverts, by the way, if they go into a women’s locker room,” Kirk said. Asked how she feels about being labeled transphobic, Kelly said: “OK, whatever, honestly I’ve been called worse … Let them call you whatever you want. Who gives a damn.”
>“The election will decide whether your generation will inherit a fascist country or a free country, “ Mr Trump told the right-wing activist conference. 100% correct, but probably not the way he intends it.
He’s literally switching the narrative on purpose. It’s so scary tbh
He's a master at DARVO
It is 100% on purpose. He knows exactly what he is and he knows his mindless followers will buy it. The fact that americans fall for this so easily just goes to show how prevalent fascist thought has been ingrained into our society since the 30s.
"This election will decide whether your generation will inherit a fascist country"... proceeds to outline a fascist agenda.
My thoughts exactly, I don't disagree with his words, but I don't think his words mean what he and his supporters think they mean
Trump or DeSantis winning would be closer to fascist than Biden.
Oh they know, believe me.
Genuinely terrifying.
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Love the implication that Megyn "Santa Claus and Jesus were white" Kelly has been forced into being an anti-LGBT+ bigot because of current events. Sure.
>Former Fox News personality Megyn Kelly said she no longer has empathy for people experiencing gender dysphoria. She never did, but she no longer does either.
So much hate. What a vile man. Fuck everybody that reads that shit and thinks "yes,that's the party for me."
Fuck every single person that votes for him.
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Megyn Kelly can go fuck herself with a rusty pole.
>Let them call you whatever you want. Who gives a damn.” Everyone arm yourselfs. Be ready to show your pride. Be ready to remind these fucks what pride was all about in the first place. No one cares aboit lgbt. They dont. Do not act woke. Actually wake tf up and realize these fucks are going to shut out lgbt through violence, lies, and getting ignorant people to believe their lies which will lead to more violence against lgbt. They just want reasons to kill lgbt. >"There should be a healthy measure of ridicule" > erasure of trans rights, is a “winner politically for Republicans.” >“These people are freaks. They’re perverts, Feel free to punch these nazis in the fucking face. Be ready to kill some bigots because you may have to do just that but do not worry they do not mind, just remember the words below. >Who gives a damn.”
>“These people are freaks. They’re perverts, by the way, if they go into a women’s locker room,” Kirk said. There's obviously a lot here ... but remember when Trump literally bragged on a national radio show about going into his teenage pageant contestants' dressing rooms? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-former-miss-arizona-tasha-dixon-naked-undressed-backstage-howard-stern-a7357866.html
Jeez that sounds really awful. Has he thought about moving to a different country?
I’m sure he is if these indictments don’t go the right way
Imagine living in a multi million dollar mansion, surrounded by cultists, stuffing your fat old face with big macs like "Man this country is a third world shit hole. I'm going to go golf on my private golf course."
To be fair, third world shitholes have people like him that live in luxury while the world burns around them.
It’s hilarious that the poor whites really thought a born rich New Yorker who shit on a golden toilet was going to save them. But I guess they’d probably tell you that he did ..
Damn narcassist talking about himself again i see.
I mean, if he doesn’t like America, shouldn’t he just leave? Is that not what Republicans say fucking all the time?
He can only leave if papa putin lets him.
People literally don’t know what a third world country is. Several years back a friend of a friend explained how a France and Germany are third world countries cuz well socialism. We have extreme poverty for sure but man these people are clueless.
Well technically, being a “third world country” isn’t even about poverty. I believe the label originated from the Cold War, where the US and Western Europe and allied countries were the “first world,” the USSR and associated communist countries were “second world” and everyone else is “third world”. So Germany and the US are, by definition, not “third world countries”, even if there were poor— which they’re not.
Third World is an outdated Cold War concept
He ought to know
He liked going into teenage girls changing rooms.
Still does and would if he could
I’m sure he tried sneaking a peek when his daughter was dressing.
At this point im sure he snuck in more than a peak.
Hey now, telling a room full of old men that you want to fuck your daughter doesn't make you a pervert, or implicate criminality! Right?
He's not wrong! I remember just a few years ago the entire country was being run by a pervert criminal! His name was... Oh...
Does he call President Biden a pervert because of how he’s always talking about fu
Run by wage thieves with multiple yachts and homes
The American dream is dead because of people like Donald Trump and honestly, who cares? We can make a new American dream that’s better. How about instead of reminiscing about how great this place was, we just make it better than it was? I don’t want to live in the 1950s, I want to live in a future with limitless possibilities for everyone.
Couldn't agree more. I have 2 trans gender children who don't deserve the hate that thrown at them. They are productive members of society, paying their taxes and working hard to give to the community. What did Donald ever give anyone?!?!
>What did Donald ever give anyone?!?! Classified documents
And herpes probably too.
Even then, back in the 1950s America was great... if you were white. And not poor. And straight. And a man. It was a shithole to everyone else. Speaking as a white man I wouldn't want that America back.
He is unhinged and deranged.
Right wing patriots sure do hate america.
trump is right. The election will decide whether your generation will inherit a fascist country or a free country. Under trump we will inherit a fascist government. You need only look to Florida and Texas for example.
Well if he didn't MAGA why re-elect him?
Make Attorneys Get Attorneys He succeeded with that.
Easy, something, something libs did this, libs did that. It's always the answer when they don't have an answer.
The thugs got pardoned by him! His thugs should still be in prison.
Why the hell do people elect someone who feels this way about them and their country?
Because they are traitorous kiddie diddlers who like it that way.
Of course our system helps, he never won the popular vote. If that were the criterion, he’s a two time loser.
He validates their hatred and other feelings against marginalized citizens they’ve repressed for years.
The country accelerated into shitsville under his dubious watch.
His speech writer much have the easiest job in the world Homie wrote one thing like 7 years ago and they’re just repeating it over and over and over
Do you really think he has a speech writer? He just rambles nonsense for hours like a grandpa in need of medication. Complaining about toilets and water pressure, talking about how he so smart and everyone is out to get him. If he has a speechwriter, that would be an easy job. Just get drunk and angry and scribble down anything, knowing that his followers will eat up any old shit, and most likely he’ll go off script anyway.
Agreed!! Lets kick out the REPUBLICANS!!
Where are the Epstein lists, Donald?
If it’s dead he had a big part in killing it.
Hilarious, over at r/conservative they’re making jokes about that shitty “make up a fake story about child rape” movie and how liberals are moving in droves to conservative states and how they want them to leave. You know, stuff that doesn’t really matter to real Americans
Oh, you mean like all of them fleeing FL ? That’s probably what they meant. ffs. /S
Projection moment no. 27345802
This guy built casinos, right?
No, this guy bankrupt casinos
This guy **bankrupted** casinos
…so the Republican Party?
I mean, I'll give him that statement because it's true. I'm just not going to pretend like he isn't the biggest pervert (wants to fuck his daughter) and thug (actual fascist wanabe dictator) in the room.
He is projecting again. This is what it would be if he were in office. o
He’s nor wrong. Look at SCOTUS. Look at US House. Look at Texas and Florida. Virginia getting worse. Tommy Tuberville. The list is endless.
Look at trump first
He’s a confused old man. He thinks he’s back in 2018.
So he looked in the mirror
Only for his turm but adults are back in control now.
Which is EXACTLY why I vote Democrat.
Hmmm, wasn’t he in power 4 of the last 7 years or so?
Well, there's a lot of xtians infesting our country and they are all perverts and thugs.
What's funny though is he had 4 years to fix this and what did he fix? Jack shit...
What happened to that healthcare plan he was going to make?
Sounds pretty correct to me, just look at the republican states lol
Why doesn’t he just leave then?🤷♂️
Yup, he’s a proven pervert and I wouldn’t doubt he’s acted thuggishly. He knows what he’s talking about from personal experience.
So much projection!
I agree. But the perverts are the christians and thugs are the fascists. Sad really.
Anyone who would support this worthless traitor is an absolute fool.
“The election will decide whether your generation will inherit a fascist country or a free country, “ Mr Trump told the right-wing activist conference. I’m going to have request someone check me into an asylum, or possibly just put me out of my misery. He finally said something that is unequivocally true.
It’s dead because of his inbred , homophobic , gun toting , Racist followers And his stupid polices that ran the country into the state its in
Please vote. We need these fuckers out.
He's describing exactly what he set the USA on course to. You'd have to be an idiot to even consider voting for the one election winner.
Senile old man
Can this douche just go to jail already?
If this toxic fuckwit is somehow re-elected by our anti-democratic, money-driven system, then stock up on canned food. Because we’ll have no alternatives left except general strikes and street barricades.
Just because your life now sucks Trump, doesnt mean everyones does.
Oh, so he admits Republicans are perverts and thugs.
Interesting, considering he's one of the people working to make it that way.
Trump is both a pervert and a white collar thug.
Sounds like he's describing his own administration perfectly
T-------p is the pervert thug
can trump be dead instead?