Other clips from the rally went viral as well, including Trump saying, “I’m for us. You know how you spell us, right? U.S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before?”
I hate this timeline so much.
I just picked that up.
More evidence he's a challenged 5 year old trapped in an old man's body.
Reading this made me wanna cry. It's so fucking sad that millions of people actually voted for this man. Wow, just wow.
Jesus. This sounds like literally every parody version of George W Bush, trying to get a laugh out of how massively exaggerated they made his stupidity.
USA: We couldn't possibly elect a president dumber than GWB
GOP: Hold my beer...
Just because Donald Trump is a moron doesn't mean George W Bush wasn't incredibly stupid. Both things can be true.
Let's not forget that Bush only graduated from college because his parents donated money to keep him from being given failing grades and flunking out.
There are entire buildings on the Yale campus that only exist because W was such a poor student.
If somebody else gave incorrect voting instructions, that would be election interference.
They don't usually do it in a way that would tank their own election though.
“I’m for us. You know how you spell us, right? U.S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before?”
Sounds like another coup attempt being foreshadowed by Trump
Yeah, though I wouldn't be surprised if he legit didn't really want to be president in the first place, but the opportunity to fleece more people was too great for him to pass up so he just ran with it and can't stop now.
The grift is 100% there but I think he does want to be president again because he believes that that will absolve all crimes.
I'm not going to worry about voting on election night. Because I will have voted days/weeks earlier through my state's effective vote by mail system.
Didn't South Park already kind of pick up on the fact that Trump gives off the vibe that he doesn't REALLY want to be President, he just wants the perks of campaigning?
Mr. Garrison in like a whole 8 months of clips basically plots and plans on how he can get OUT of it, only to keep finding himself in situations where he somehow gets further in the polls.
This feels exactly like that.
He just wants his name in lights. It's a personality disorder.
He doesn't want to do anything. He never has had to.
It's not talked about how just so seriously mentally ill trump is. The Goldwater rule is probably for the best, but trump is, well, just look into the DSM. Way worse than Goldwater.The wiki captures it as well.
I went to a lecture of a criminal psychologist recently about psychopathy. Psychopaths are often also narcissists, and there are a number of personality traits to identify them. The more traits one has, the more likely the person is a clinical narcissist. Trump would check all those boxes, every single one.
I never knew that such a large portion of our population was so far below what I would have thought was the average intelligence until I heard they thought this man was smart. This guy is an idiot and that scares me to think what that means about his cult members’ intelligence levels.
No one dumb enough to think this guy is smart should be trusted with any adult responsibilities; not gun ownership, not voting and definitely not reproducing.
Me after reading the headline: "Haha, that's hilarious! Yes, Trump voters, don't worry about voting!"
Me after reading the article: "Well, that was disturbing."
You don’t have to vote, don’t worry about voting. The voting, we got plenty of votes.
Why does it sound like he's got a mountain of fake ballots sitting in a warehouse that he's gonna drop from a blimp or some shit.
"Watch the voters"
We already have poll watchers, is he really trying to go full 1933 nazi and have his zealots "monitor" voters?
Great.
Watch them for what exactly? For... Voting for another candidate? I don't understand. Like. They are looking for fraud? What would that look like?
I don't get it. Like if I went and watched the people at my local voting center, I would see a bunch of senior citizen voulenteers handing out ballots, and then I would see people putting their ballots into the big scantron machine thing. That's what it would look like. That's what it looks like every time.
He doesn't want them "watching" for anything. This is a dog whistle for textbook voter intimidation tactics.
Sane people may be too scared to show up and vote because they actively fear for their safety due to threats of violence or social reprisal.
It's so he can start bitching more and more after he loses again and his cult can try to overthrow the government again.
He wants to break the system, dumbasses.
He is prove the system is already broken. When in a democracy, voters who can read and write, who are impoverished and on avg can't even afford a $500 emergency vote for a billionaire, I'd say that is a failure of the system.
Asking your supporters to engage in voter intimidation for the next election when you've been charged, and will be tried shortly, for leading an insurrection after the last election seems like a great game plan. /s
I can't imagine being this guys lawyer. You must either be eating a handful of Tums every night, or your just as loony as him and actually don't see how everything he says and does it toxic to himself and everyone in his orbit.
His lawyers are just there to drag it out, they plan on using mob violence to settle things when time runs out if he hasn't been elected.
"Dont worry about voting, just intimidate and threaten the other people who are voting."
Other clips from the rally went viral as well, including Trump saying, “I’m for us. You know how you spell us, right? U.S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before?”
No, Donnie. No one has ever thought of this. You're the first, you beautiful genius. /s
Sounds like he's instructing his people to harass and intimidate voters. Add it to the pile of crimes?
This actually concerns me a bit. Not that I believe Trump can actually coordinate anything, mind you.
But at the same time, Trump really didn't lose the election by several million votes. He lost the election by a few thousand key votes in key swing states. Many of those states have passed dranconian laws, took over election boards, and put in rules that would allow them to just throw the election Trump's way regardless of the actual vote count. It's very possible that he's simply banking on those to carry him through the day regardless of the actual vote totals. If Trump believes (or is led to believe) the fix is in in those key areas, telling ruby-red voters in ruby-red states to stay home is no big deal.
Seems like he is calling for his supporters to swarm polling stations and scare away anyone who looks like a Democrat. He is counting on violence or the threat of it to give him a win.
Let's game this out the way some of the comments are saying.
Scenario 1: Proud Boys and other right wing militant groups stand around polling places with open carry weapons to intimidate Democrat-leaning districts. Maybe it doesn't chase everyone away, but we know a lot of election officials are complaining about threats and have quit. So it's going to have some effect. Enough to swing the vote? I don't think that matters. It's still election interference.
Scenario 2: right wing militants show up, and so do various antifa groups to counter them. Maybe antifa show up armed, maybe not. Either way, it's an escalation. Escalating tensions with guns present significantly increases the chances that someone uses their gun, regardless of who shoots first. The first shots in a civil war? Then the right wing militants win, because they've been agitating for this for years. Who wins is immaterial to the millions of people who will suffer as a result.
Scenario 3: polling places are reinforced with police and National Guards as necessary to prevent any election interference. They can be present to "observe" but they're not allowed to intimidate anyone. This is the only scenario I can see where democracy is defended and preserved.
Agree or disagree? What am I missing? Where am I wrong?
You're missing that the police etc and the proud boys etc are the same group.
I think he thinks he'll lose, and he thinks a big loss is actually less believable to his supporters than a close loss, so he's trying to create a big loss, which will make more of his supporters Jan 6 2.0.
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