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President Donald Trump concluded his Republican midterm convention on Thursday by leading the audience in a pledge ... to himself.

Trump asked the crowd to raise their right hands and begin: “I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States.”

The crowd dutifully repeated the line, calling Trump “the greatest president in the history of the United States.”

Trump added: “that loves us so much he can’t even breathe.”

The crowd again repeated the line, but then it got a little harder to follow.

“That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it anyway, I don’t care if I’m registered or not. I’m going to try and cheat like hell like they do,” he said. “There’s never been bigger cheaters, they don’t care. I am going to go out and I am going to get my friends, my family, and we are going to vote on November 3rd or we are going to vote before that.”

Unable to repeat all of that, the crowd cheered.

Trump realized he lost them and reset.

“Are you ready?” he asked. “Here’s the way you ― “

But he wasn’t ready himself as he got sidetracked by people in the audience. He tried once more to finish, with the crowd repeating after him, but left them behind as he went off on another tangent.

“So help me God,” he concluded.

The crowd repeated that part heartily.

“You know what happens if you don’t vote?” Trump asked. “You go to hell!”

So much blasphemy that he's telling his supporters they're going to hell!

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[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago

So, a direct pledge to him as god-king-emperor in which he claims moral authority over their previous god, and that he has the old god's power of final judgement.

Sigh, I wish with all my heart this were actually binding. I can think of nothing better than these creatures getting an eternity in a pocket universe of trump's creation with him as the supreme power.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I think that headline missed the plot.

“That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it anyway, I don’t care if I’m registered or not. I’m going to try and cheat like hell like they do,

[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 hour ago

He also almost said exactly how to cheat and either realized he needed to shut up or the brain fog kicked in to save him

[–] bobjones1665@lemmy.world 26 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So he just authorized conservatives to openly cheat.

The projection is just...

I can't with these people.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 9 points 1 hour ago

Not authorised. INSTRUCTED.

Let me repeat that: the current sitting president of the US gave an instruction to his followers to ignore the rule of the law and cheat at the election.

Even more brazenly than on 6 Jan 2021, he's literally instructing his followers to dismantle the entire legal basis of the federal state.

Watch it, his next attempt will be to then discredit the midterms' results and claim they don't count so the already sitting representatives stay.

They're getting desperate to keep control, because they KNOW people are going to vote blue. Mamdani's example of successful leadership contrasts the disaster of the cabinet too sharply. People are starting to see through the constant communist scaremongering.

[–] boobookittyfrick@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 hour ago

Oh my fucking god I’d say this can’t be real but it defiantly is

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 49 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What a fuccen time to be alive. Could really use a grassy knoll right about now.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 3 hours ago

I guess we better pledge to cheat like hell or something

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Feels like an easy way for him to lose people is to try and get them to "repeat after me", like there is no way helps people think he's snart

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 25 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

The 33% who are too stupid and too racist to care what he says. They just love pulling off his diaper and giving him a sloppy rim job.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social 1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)
[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 6 points 2 hours ago

I was totally unprepared for this imagery. Viceral.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

I trust him on this.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

I'm grateful I accepted myself as a godless atheist long before this shit came up. If I was a Christian, a real Christian anyway, I'd be so fucking pissed off by this guy.

I mean, I'm pissed off by this guy anyway, but not in a divine way at least.

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So now the question becomes if we KNOW by their own words they’re going to cheat, why allow them the chance? Why not just eliminate the possibility by eliminating their right to vote? If not, I guess we have to cheat then - we’ve seen what happens when we try to play fair and they don’t, and we can’t afford even a single step more in that direction as it would be the last.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Eliminate the right to vote? So you are saying beat them to the punch in establishing an autocracy? It may come to that, we are no where near that yet.

I support restoring the republic and safeguarding fair elections.

[–] MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

I agree with everything you said except:

I support restoring the republic and safeguarding fair elections.

Because I support the Balkanization of U.S. Nothing good comes from the continued existence of the his country. Trump's rise to power isn't a fluke, it is merely the natural consequence of courting authoritarianism for the better part of a century.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

I would 100% go to hell if it meant I no longer had to listen to this orange Russian cum rag.