In his Truth Social tirade, Mr Trump slammed the August 2022 at his Florida home and private club.
“WOW! I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the ‘Icebox,’ and was shown Reports that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE.
What’s he complaining about? Isn’t he the one who said the President can do no wrong?
He’s not complaining. He’s establishing precedent.
That seems like a dumb non-complaint that will nevertheless resonate with his paranoid base.
If you get pulled over for just rolling through a stop sign, did you know THE COP BRINGS THEIR GUN WITH THEM when they approach your car???
Seems like a weird stance to try, considering how right-wing most police are.
That was kind of my point. Trump is trying to speak to his base that has no problems with police violence or guns, but do somehow care when HE complains about how it affects HIM.
Hypocrisy is the name of his game.
Lethal? Don’t give me hope like that!
Were they covered in pee? Asking for a friend.
Tell Dmitry hey
He says “watup?”
Are you asking for LiquidGrue?
There has never been an explanation of how a person who is a known rapist, known liar, known fraudster, known thief of classified documents, known seller of information which got operatives killed, is allowed to run for office. It defies explanation.
I have an explanation:
Propaganda works really well.
The things you listed are what someone on the left thinks of Trump.
Someone who is: Tough on Crime™, Fights for Liberty™, Cares for Children™, a Successful Business Man™, Fights Wokeness™, Highly Intelligent™, Protects Democracy™, and Fights for Christianity™, is what those on the right are made to believe Trump is.
Propagandists are why Trump will win again…
I hate propagandists with every fiber of my being.
Not only do they give cover to this piece of shit, they make the right feel as if WE are oppressing and attacking them! They literally put us all in danger by making the right feel threatened by our existence.
This is NOT the same as us saying POLITICIANS on the right putting us in actual danger and actually oppressing us… One is saying Joe schmoe liberal is the danger, the other is saying Mitch Mcfuckbag in the Senate is a danger to us all.
Someone who is: Tough on Crime™, Fights for Liberty™, Cares for Children™, a Successful Business Man™, Fights Wokeness™, Highly Intelligent™, Protects Democracy™, and Fights for Christianity™, is what those on the right are made to believe Trump is.
Even though each and every one of those things is a provably blatant lie.
Protects Democracy™
That’s one that I don’t think right-wingers believe for a moment or care in the slightest about.
“The Greeks were a bunch of woke gays anyway, good riddance” is what a Republican might say if they knew the Greeks invented democracy.
I mean…none of those things are disqualifying for running for office, even if he were convicted of any crimes related to them, which he hasn’t been. Trump is a piece of shit, but yes he has a right to run for office. Now why people would still vote for him despite all that, is much more mysterious.
he has a right to run for office.
The Republican party has allowed him to be their candidate for president.
They absolutely could choose to prevent him from having that role if they wanted to.
And they don’t want that. Trump is extremely popular within the party. Not sure your point.
He may be popular to some of them, but he’s also turned the party into a cult of personality that has abandoned most of what it used to claim to believe in.
When he dies (or loses his ability to attract a crowd), the party will be a husk of its former self. They’ll have abandoned their principles which attracted fiscal conservatives in the past, and won’t have their cult leader to rally around.
The concept of AI weaponized mass propaganda on social media makes it less mysterious.
They were lost long before AI was unleashed on them, get it right.
AI has been employed in Facebook marketing for over a decade… LLMs are just the latest face of AI, not the full body of it…
Yeah, you don’t know what AI is
Cool, what’s the totally unambiguous meaning of AI that you have mastery of, m’boy? And why do other people not agree with you? Words mean more than just what you want them to mean
Wow, you couldn’t have put more FUD into that comment even if you tried
I’m just saying ‘AI’ has been around for, like, 60 years in one form or another. Sorry you’ve only just heard of it
I still haven’t actually
Republicans see whatever they want in their candidates. They even bend to them. I mean “who here has never paid for a prostitute?” Is now something they say to defend Trump. There are no values, their foundation is nothing but their own reflections, and there is no meeting them in the middle, they just move the goal post (which pretty much makes Democrats enablers).
They even bend to them. I mean “who here has never paid for a prostitute?” Is now something they say to defend Trump.
My favorite was when they started chanting “Real men wear diapers!” when it was revealed in court that Donald shits himself and has to wear a diaper.
None of those are legally disqualifying. That’s the explanation.
I think the issue is, if we were to make laws saying you cant run for president if you are convicted of a crime or suspected or whatever, it would give incentives to politicians to try to frame or imprison their political rivals. Then there are things like our drug laws that disproportionately target certain groups. All those people would be barred from running too.
It’s definitely an issue that needs to be resolved. One of so many…please help
Democrats vote for candidates they love; Republicans vote for a party they love.
Democrats vote for candidates they love
Love? For me that’s rare. It’s usually me voting for the lesser of two evils.
And that’s why democrat candidates struggle to maintain voters. There are very few lovable democrats, so they don’t get votes. With republicans, it doesn’t matter if the individual candidates are lovable, because they’ll get the party vote regardless.
Republicans vote for who is going to do the most damage to America and “own the libs”
The judges he picked said the presidential office isn’t an office under the constitution so it is up to Republicans whether or not he runs
Money. The answer is money.
people have been screaming the answer at you, yet you ignore it. The American middle class was gutted by outsourcing labor and they’re not happy about it. It couldn’t get more simple.
But that’s a non-answer since Trump’s party wants to make a lot of that worse
It’s still an answer since most people base their vote on emotions and identity, not rational evaluation of policy.
do you think they even care anymore? They lost everything, they just want to see the world burn. Again, I’m truly shocked by how you all lack empathy and fail to see the obvious.
Would I try to make things better even for strangers if I had no empathy?
I know why plenty of them feel what they feel. But they’re assigning blame in the wrong directions, in large part due to propaganda, and that propaganda needs to be countered or else there won’t be enough support to actually implement the fixes.
… They do want their problems fixed, right?
lol because Biden is brining the jobs back. Can you tell me one politician you support that is ACTUALLY trying to fix the rust belt? No one is helping them. They have been discarded by society, so they are lashing out.
The Republican governors are actively opting out of federal support programs, what else can the president do?
Republicans have abandoned them, and Republicans pretend it’s society at large and not them doing it.
And yet no one died. Weird…
You know that’s what Trump wasn’t talking about, and thus what I wasn’t talking about.
What are you talking about then? His claim they were authorized to use deadly force?
I’m probably daft and missed the joke.
What are you not talking about then?
ftfy
You both seem to be talking past each other. Funny thing about it is, you are both right about your arguments and make great points. Unfortunately, you both are arguing the wrong people. Fun!
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Mine was an attempt at meta humor based on the op’s negative inference sentence structure.
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They could have. We all know that the president can authorize killing his political opponents. I was told that was very cool.
For all those who did not read or at least skim the article. FlyingSquirrel is referencing Trumps claims that the FBI was authorized to use deadly force when conducting their UnCoNsTiTuTiOnAl raid.
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It’s okay. I don’t mind being a squirrel.
*FlyingSquirrel
*Flying Squid 🙃
For those of you who are confused about what FlyingSquid is talking about, Trump claims the FBI agents were authorized to use lethal force.
You don’t know that.
I absolutely do. If someone had died, Trump would never have shut the fuck up about it.
Hell nobody died and he still hasn’t shut the fuck up about it.
The man has never shut the fuck up about anything, ever.
Well except for his currently underway trial that he was totally going to testify in, that the defense just rested their case without him testifying in. Because his lawyers know that not only can he not shut the fuck up, he can’t make it through 3 sentences without telling at least one blatantly obvious lie, and that is a generally unadvisable thing to do when you are under oath.
Unless Trump himself died, and now he is a double.
Edit: I think we should post this conspiracy theory on 4chan.
OMG! It has to be some absolute insanity though like Trump died and OBAMA is pretending to be Trump so that he can get an illegal 3rd term. Their heads would explode lol
Is that why his hair has been a different color recently? They couldn’t match it on the double’s hair? He has been looking a bit more gray.
He won in 2016 and still brings that up
So what days of the week is it that the FBI aren’t allowed to use deadly force?
It’s dependent on wealth, not date.
They actually use a two point ruler method. One axis is wealth. The other that family guy skin color test.
that family guy skin color test
All he does is lash out and shit his Depends. He is literally a toddler
Literally?
Rage against it all you like, the people have spoken. One of the definitions of “literally” is literally “figuratively” now.
Oh boy, I think this is going to be an inflammable topic of discussion.
I see what you did their.
It’s not “figuratively”. It’s more like “figuratively but in a way that’s almost literal”.
I nearly died today. Literally. Let me explain; I’m still alive.
Literally has officially been a contranym for a few years now.
Also McDonald Trump
“Please don’t be too nice,” he said to the audience in Long Island, New York.
“When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just seen them thrown in, rough. I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice,’” he said.
“When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head you know, the way you put their hand over [their head],” Trump continued, mimicking the motion. "Like, ‘Don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody, don’t hit their head.’ I said, ‘You can take the hand away, OK?’
“I have to tell you, you know, the laws are so horrendously stacked against us, because for years and years, they’ve been made to protect the criminal. Totally made to protect the criminal. Not the officers. You do something wrong, you’re in more jeopardy than they are,” he added.
Lashes out = pouts like a spoilt lil baby
That man has a rabid base.
It is strange he never gets flak for the amount of excuses he has for every situation. It is always someone or some group who is against him.
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”
What’s the one millionth time…
“Flooding the zone with shit.”
The millionth time is “just the way it is.”
Everytime I step in a puddle, my feet get wet. I guess that’s just the way it is; nothing I can do about it besides stop stepping in puddles.
Everytime Trump is accused of something he blames someone else…
“status quo”
Compare how and why people cheer for sports teams. If you’re affiliated you will support any statement in favor of the team, while ignoring, suppressing, or attacking any statements to the contrary.
You won’t debate a Trump troll out of supporting Trump, because it’s about belonging to a group and showing loyalty regardless of facts. Honestly I’m not surprised he’s doing so well, consider how techy most of us are and still get overwhelmed by what the Internet is shaping up to be. If you’re in your 50’s from a poor rural area, what chance have you got to stand against weaponized online propaganda?
We are all like this, by the way. The inclination to blind affiliation with groups is the result of very deep, very old, very well studied cognitive structures and behaviors.
Here’s some introductory reading that might fundamentally change how you perceive people’s participation in groups:
https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/sociology/conformity
Sherif’s autokinetic experiment - if enough people around you believe something, you’ll soon believe it toohttps://www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html
A similar experiment performed by Solomon Aschhttps://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html
The Robber’s Cave experiment - arbitrarily divide a group into two, and watch the inevitable descent into inter-group conflict (hopeful note: if you make the groups try to overcome a common obstacle, fighting goes away)Leon Festinger’s Cognitive Dissonance Tests - This is an interesting one as well, here’s the idea:
Experiment: Infiltrating a doomsday cult before, during, and after the date of their supposed apocalypse, Festinger and his fellow scientists noted that instead of losing faith, members doubled-down on their beliefs after the ‘end times’ came and went — eventually believing that their work saved the world.
Conclusion: When we have two (or more) incompatible thoughts, we adjust them to minimize internal conflict, what Festinger called ‘cognitive dissonance’ — a term that explains the mind state of those unwilling to accept information that conflicts against their belief.
That’s how you know it’s a cult
‘Lashes out’ every time I see this shit I just imagine him throwing a tantrum like the petulant geriatric child he is.
Is this enough to lock him away and make him irrelevant again? …probably not
You mean make him more popular with the pro-russian anti-vax Qanut base? Absolutely.
If you think locking him up would make him more popular, you fundamentally don’t understand Republicans. They value power and hierarchy. They value doing things and getting away with them.
They are not like Democrats and liberals who value ideas. There are no Republican martyrs. When Nixon resigned, Republicans stopped talking to him.
Don’t you remember how quiet it was when Biden was elected? Trump couldn’t get on TV anymore. Maybe he would call in to a show or two, but he didn’t have any rallies and nobody interviewed him. When Republicans go to jail nobody supports them, because they value hierarchy.
The whole point of hierarchy is that you’re untouchable.
Exactly. As soon as he’s out of sight he’s forgotten about. There won’t be any martyrdom if he goes to jail. They’ll just move on to whoever the angry talking heads stear them towards.
The magats love him because the dems hate him. We’ll still hate him when he’s in prison, so they’ll still love him
Are you sure it wasn’t Justice Alito’s wife that put it there?
She even stored them upside down. Treacherous shithead.
You might need to have read other stuff to get this joke. It’s not my job to provide backstory.
I refuse to read, so instead I am just going to be angry.
Fox News viewer?
No, too angry for Fox it is OAN all day long
Not angry enough for Newsmax?
Don’t talk to me about that sellout liberal rag.
Honestly, the most shocking thing for me about that search was the fact they’ve never reported finding CSAM anywhere along with the classified docs. I seriously expected no less of him.
Yeah, Don! The government doesn’t belong in anybody’s bedroom! You tell 'em!
MAGA God, “Let those who do not raw dog pornstars while thier wife is at home taking care of their newborn in her own personal bedroom and store classified material in thier pesonal bedrooms where thier wife will not sleep with them, cast the first stone”
“…cast the first hamberder”
