I was wondering if the actual quote was something more weaselly than that but nope.
Beck: "If you become president will you lock people up?"
Trump: “The answer is you have no choice, because they’re doing it to us.”
Fascists always do the ole ‘he hit me first waah’ gambit. All you can do is ignore it and treat them like the crybabies they are.
Perhaps if someone gives trump a dummy (binky) and rocks him gently we’ll all be able to sleep for a while.
‘It’s okay, you were the bestest president, sleep now, everyone lubs you. Shhh.’
Followed by a brick.
If someone gave him a brickin' early on in life, we wouldn't be here. Just enough to slow home down a little, nothing grave, take a few points off his IQ
This dude absolutely cannot get near the white house again.
Vote. And get all your friends, coworkers, and families to vote. That's how we stop this bullshit from happening. And vote at the state and local level too. It actually can make a hell of a difference.
I've voted on stuff that passed by a mere 1,250 votes, and restored bus lines that ran past my house by voting and organizing. It's kind of amazing to see it in action.
Can the trial get any faster? This is ridiculous...
Well he campaigned on "lock her up" and despite nearly a dozen investigations and her testifying in front of Congress for 10 hours, guess what happened? Zippity doo daa
His entire campaign in 2016 was 'locking up' Hillary. If he wasn't able to accomplish that in 4 years, what makes him think he can follow through with this promise now that he has numerous enemies on both sides of the aisle?
Nothing short of a full-blown Shutzstaffel will fulfill even a fraction of his current campaign promises.
Playing devil's advocate, the Trump team didn't expect to win and quite frankly had no clue how to pull the levers of power for a large portion of his presidency. If, God forbid, he is reelected that will not be the case. They will know how to play the system much more effectively than they did last time.
If that happens then my grandchildren will be living in nearly the identical series events my grandmother escaped from.
We have learned nothing from our past mistakes.
What else would this douchebag do, really? He had 4 years and the only thing he "accomplished" was tax breaks for the elite.
Of course this tiny petty man will use the power of the office to exact revenge. He's not going to do anything for Americans.
He had 4 years and the only thing he "accomplished" was tax breaks for the elite
He also "accomplished" making intentional allies a lot less willing to trust the US.
He also accomplished the deaths of millions of Americans during a pandemic
I was looking into this. Obama added roughly 8 trillion dollars to the national debt. Trump added the same amount in half as much time.
While both of these statements are true, Obama did it to get the US out of the recession hole where the previous 8 years of unsecured mortgages and crazy walls street bets from investment banks created endemic risk and failure propagation.
Very different outcomes of the same moneys, specially considering we even turn some profit on sellin the bailed out car companies and once they paid some of these loans.
Obama did it to get the US out of the recession hole where the previous 8 years of unsecured mortgages and crazy walls street bets from investment banks created endemic risk and failure propagation.
Yep and Trump, in contrast, managed to give hundreds of billions of dollars directly to criminals and scammers. He made scams great again.
They aren't even hiding that they are wanna-be dictators anymore.
And "freedom" loving conservatives just cheer this on.
They "love" America so much, they want to destroy our democracy.
The level of hypocrisy amongst the Right is astonishing.
Most of the followers can't see past "we're going to save America from the evil Democrats". It's not as if Fox News or OAN put the fascist behaviors on display. They genuinely believe Trump when he says the Democrats are persecuting him, rather than that the justice system is prosecuting him for crimes - his only "crime" was trying to save America from those evil commie Democrats, after all. They take all the BS at face value because ... tribalism and fear or something?
The only people in the Republican party who actually understand what's happening are the rich and the powerful. Everyone else, the voters especially, are just useful idiots.
That sure sounds like a violation of his terms of release in his court cases.
So they screech about the justice system being weaponized because they're being tried and prosecuted for their crimes, and then turn around and in the same breath just flat out say they'll weaponize the justice system. Classic case of saying the quiet part out loud.
They need to ask ab9ut this during these republican debate/PR events. Do you support tump's call tto arrest his political opponents?" Yes or no,
Ummm, that’s not the question you’re hoping it is.
They chanted “lock her up!” at rallies.
The people who still support this man (and it’s a lot of people) would turn against anyone who answered with a no.
They already asked them if they would support Trump as nominee ( their political rival ) if he was arrested and imprisoned. I think 6 of 8 said “yes”.
Trump doesn't do debates anymore. He doesn't have to. I think he has saturated his market.
Once again the Right is accusing the Left of things the Right wants to do.
Pretty sneaky trick really.
Say your enemy is going to do something
Do it
Get told "Hey you're doing X"
Tell them "Projecting much? Everyone knows you're the one who's doing X, I even said so before you accused me of anything!"
The language of every abuser and totalitarian ever: "Look at what you made me do."
Apart from the whole dictator thing, they had the presedential power for 4 years and managed to lock up exactly nobody.... Not saying they're not dangerous but why would their base believe them this time, action should really speak louder than words with those simpletons and Trump has been all words.
They didn't lock anybody up, but they DID drain the swamp. And then they put the sludge dredged off the bottom in cabinet positions.
He'll have to find a way to get Congress to approve a bill that eliminates themselves and the judicial branch of government first.
Has nobody on the internet ever read a history book? Who cares what Congress thinks when you have an autocrat jailing his political opponents? It's not relevant anymore.
This. Far too many sympathetic fascist-curious, fascist-adjacent, and outright fascists in the Republican Party (and the police, and the army and the FBI, etc...) that DGAF about institutional norms.
We still have not even gotten to the bottom of their coup attempt - just WHY did they issue stand-down orders for J6? What was Flynn's involvement, as well as his BROTHER'S involvement?
These people thought they were going to get away with it. We already nearly lost our country - these assholes are likely to make sure they don't fail next time.
He is a dictator... I feel like if we get to that point... Congress agreeing to bills is the least of our problems coming
Agreed.
Trump has a very good chance of making it back, and when he does, everything he did up to and including 1/6 will be validated. We will be an overtly fascist country for at least four years, but likely longer.
All that’s missing is him huffing “don’t you know who I am??” While clutching his pearls.
Trump is just a lying little fucking pussy who will never be president ever again.
If you want him to shut the fuck up, send Stormy Daniels over with a magazine to beat his ass.
He will shut up.
That'd be a neat trick from jail.
I mean Hitler also went to jail for a failed coup. We saw how that turned out.
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