What Trumps cult hears when he speaks.
Mar 27, 2024 12:14:49 #
Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole—that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”
Trump apologists quickly pointed out that the context of his remark involved the automobile industry and argued that the reference was metaphorical. But that sounds like a hasty, not entirely convincing, rationalization.
The statement, in fact, could be parsed in a much darker way, as well, but there’s not much point in doing so: What’s important is not what Trump says or means or thinks he means, but what his most dev**ed supporters actually hear.
On J*** 6, for example, after Trump falsely asserted that the e******n had been stolen, he challenged his followers to march to the capitol and “…fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
What did he mean?
He might have meant something like: March to the capitol grounds and make speeches opposing the certification of the e******n; try to contact your representatives and urge them to v**e against certification; wave banners advocating “Stop the Steal”; set up tables and urge passersby to sign petitions against certification.
But wh**ever Trump meant by “fight,” thousands of his supporters understood him to mean that they should break into the capitol, assault police officers, occupy the Senate chamber and rifle through desks, do harm to Nancy Pelosi if they could find her and threaten to hang Mike Pence.
If Trump’s words were misinterpreted by the i**********nists, he didn’t appear to be horrified by the violence. On the contrary, he delayed several hours before calling them off, despite entreaties by officials, staff and even his family.
Trump apologists quickly pointed out that the context of his remark involved the automobile industry and argued that the reference was metaphorical. But that sounds like a hasty, not entirely convincing, rationalization.
The statement, in fact, could be parsed in a much darker way, as well, but there’s not much point in doing so: What’s important is not what Trump says or means or thinks he means, but what his most dev**ed supporters actually hear.
On J*** 6, for example, after Trump falsely asserted that the e******n had been stolen, he challenged his followers to march to the capitol and “…fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
What did he mean?
He might have meant something like: March to the capitol grounds and make speeches opposing the certification of the e******n; try to contact your representatives and urge them to v**e against certification; wave banners advocating “Stop the Steal”; set up tables and urge passersby to sign petitions against certification.
But wh**ever Trump meant by “fight,” thousands of his supporters understood him to mean that they should break into the capitol, assault police officers, occupy the Senate chamber and rifle through desks, do harm to Nancy Pelosi if they could find her and threaten to hang Mike Pence.
If Trump’s words were misinterpreted by the i**********nists, he didn’t appear to be horrified by the violence. On the contrary, he delayed several hours before calling them off, despite entreaties by officials, staff and even his family.
Mar 27, 2024 12:33:51 #
Kevyn wrote:
Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a blo... (show quote)
An American Patriot , through and through !!!
Mar 27, 2024 13:04:10 #
Milosia2 wrote:
An American Patriot , through and through !!!
Will America survive Trump, very sk**led con man, or will Trump break America in half?
Mar 27, 2024 17:07:58 #
David L
Loc: Central Wisconsin
Kevyn wrote:
Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a blo... (show quote)
Holy crap Kev, you rally strained that itty bity brain with such a long post. As usual, it belongs on the compost heap.
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