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Trump Rallies & Interviews Catch-All | Trump - “just stop talking about that”

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rodoheel said:
One would think, but there were a whole lot of nurses pushing all sorts of crazy COVID stuff back in 2020-22. Probably still are.
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I know one anti-vaxxer/Covid denier who was a nurse, lost her job and lost both of her elderly parents in a matter of 2-3 months because she was a conspiracy theorist. I've also known Trumpers/MAGA, in the medical industry, who were pretty much onboard with all levels of MAGA crazy, except the Covid/Vaxx. How that person didn't put 2 & 2 together, to question ALL conspiracy theories, is beyond me.

But, on the old ZZLP, there were otherwise reasonable people who suddenly turned conspiracy theorists in regard to the Trump assassination attempt, so....
 
ZenMode said:
I know one anti-vaxxer/Covid denier who was a nurse, lost her job and lost both of her elderly parents in a matter of 2-3 months because she was a conspiracy theorist. I've also known Trumpers/MAGA, in the medical industry, who were pretty much onboard with all levels of MAGA crazy, except the Covid/Vaxx. How that person didn't put 2 & 2 together, to question ALL conspiracy theories, is beyond me.

But, on the old ZZLP, there were otherwise reasonable people who suddenly turned conspiracy theorists in regard to the Trump assassination attempt, so....
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Ah, there it is. You can't just post without a both sides, can you?

"Trump wasn't hit by a bullet but rather by glass," is not a conspiracy theory in the context of a) other people who were injured by glass; b) an odd glaring absence of any real medical report; c) the improbability of being shot just there; and d) the fact that Trump almost always lies about everything. That's just noting the discrepancy, and suggesting that the event was made up like so much of Trump's other bullshit.

If there were people still talking about how Trump wasn't shot two months later, then maybe you'd have a point. Seeing as how that isn't the case, your post fails, again.
 


Add Eric Adams to the list of disgraced politicians that Trump embraces.
 


“Catholics, you gotta vote for me. You better remember I’m here and she’s not, I coulda done that too …”
 


The people at this thing must be high to yuck it up at this stuff but I guess that is how these things go.



I guess there is a Trump ringer table to try to encourage guffaws. Hard to believe they have plants, Because just saying Barrack HUSSEIN Obama is side-splitting material.
 





But the crowd seems to be running out of patience a bit and liquored-up laughter is ebbing. Maybe they did last call and served strong coffee when Trump started.
 


Also, that is a bizarrely small bow tie. Looks like he borrowed one from a child.
 


I think his growing exhaustion is self-evident. And the later evening events seem particularly taxing (which is understandable).
 


Gift Link: Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini

“… Rhetoric has a history. The words democracy and tyranny were debated in ancient Greece; the phrase separation of powers became important in the 17th and 18th centuries. The word vermin,as a political term, dates from the 1930s and ’40s, when both fascists and communists liked to describe their political enemies as vermin, parasites, and blood infections, as well as insects, weeds, dirt, and animals. The term has been revived and reanimated, in an American presidential campaign, with Donald Trump’s description of his opponents as “radical-left thugs” who “live like vermin.”

… In each of these very different societies, the purpose of this kind of rhetoric was the same. If you connect your opponents with disease, illness, and poisoned blood, if you dehumanize them as insects or animals, if you speak of squashing them or cleansing them as if they were pests or bacteria, then you can much more easily arrest them, deprive them of rights, exclude them, or even kill them. If they are parasites, they aren’t human. If they are vermin, they don’t get to enjoy freedom of speech, or freedoms of any kind. And if you squash them, you won’t be held accountable.

… Trump blurs the distinction between illegal immigrants and legal immigrants—the latter including his wife, his late ex-wife, the in-laws of his running mate, and many others.

He has said of immigrants, “They’re poisoning the blood of our country” and “They’re destroying the blood of our country.”

He has claimed that many have “bad genes.” He has also been more explicit: “They’re not humans; they’re animals”; they are “cold-blooded killers.”

He refers more broadly to his opponents—American citizens, some of whom are elected officials—as “the enemy from within … sick people, radical-left lunatics.” Not only do they have no rights; they should be “handled by,” he has said, “if necessary, National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.”

… These phrases have not been put on posters and banners at random in the final weeks of an American election season. With less than three weeks left to go, most candidates would be fighting for the middle ground, for the swing voters. Trump is doing the exact opposite.

Why? There can be only one answer: because he and his campaign team believe that by using the tactics of the 1930s, they can win.

The deliberate dehumanization of whole groups of people; the references to police, to violence, to the “bloodbath” that Trump has said will unfold if he doesn’t win; the cultivation of hatred not only against immigrants but also against political opponents—none of this has been used successfully in modern American politics.

But neither has this rhetoric been tried in modern American politics. Several generations of American politicians have assumed that American voters, most of whom learned to pledge allegiance to the flag in school, grew up with the rule of law, and have never experienced occupation or invasion, would be resistant to this kind of language and imagery. Trump is gambling—knowingly and cynically—that we are not.“
 
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