As familiar as this is, and as often as it has been and will be repeated, this aberrant and abhorrent cult and its cult leader/ monster must be seen over and over again for who and what they are.
John Bowden of The Independent attended the Malignant Loser's Nuremberg rally therapy session in Ohio yesterday afternoon, and took note of what happens when the deranged, aggrieved would- be dictator goes off script in front of diminished crowds:
... It was on this issue [his 2020 election loss] that Mr Trump departed almost completely from
his prepared remarks as he labelled his political opponents inhuman: “In
some cases, they’re not people.” He’d provoke that same dehumanising
imagery as he delivered his latest rant against illegal immigration,
this time eyeing a new enemy in the arrival of residents of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo. Repeating “they’re coming in from
Africa”, the former president sarcastically declared: “The Congo’s a
very nice place, I imagine.” [Ed.: your enthusiastic ass-kisser Sen. Tim Scott would be happy to help with any damage control on this one, we're assuming.]
It was a typical Trump speech in many
ways, and only atypical in the sense that the former president’s
growing inability to couch his more shocking impulses in
politically-acceptable language was on greater display than usual.
Perhaps
the most notable aspect of the event was how small it was. The event
was not held directly in a major population centre, instead taking place
roughly an hour from Columbus. Overall, Mr Trump’s crowd size on
Saturday appeared to be much smaller than his typical rally size; with
an eyeball estimate, the event appeared to have roughly doubled the size
of ex-rival Nikki Haley’s final rally in her home state of South
Carolina before that state’s primary election; perhaps a thousand
people, maybe less. The total was definitively smaller — to the scale of
thousands — than the crowd that gathered for Mr Trump’s last rally in
support of a Senate candidate in the state, his appearance boosting JD
Vance at an arena in Youngstown two years ago...
It was also at that rally therapy session that the Malignant Loser said this:
..."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," he warned, while talking about the impact of offshoring on
the country's auto industry and his plans to increase tariffs on
foreign-made cars.
Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer accused Trump of doubling "down on his threats of political violence."...
Opening the prisons and releasing the violent January 6 insurrectionists to finish the job is high on the Malignant Loser's agenda. The Malignant Loser is always prepared for others to shed their blood as long as he ends up in the clear.
Renee Graham of The Boston Globe has something to say about the Malignant Loser and his cultists based on a recent rally in Georgia:
... Unable to attack Biden’s solid State of the Union performance, Trump instead mocked President Biden’s lifelong stutter. It’s certainly not the first time Trump has resorted to his typical schoolyard bullying tactics. It’s not even the first time this year
he’s tried to ridicule the president with such childish nonsense. But
what stood out again is that Trump’s audience laughed and applauded in
malicious glee. [snip]
Now when he
derides Biden’s stutter by saying things that Biden never said — like
pretending Biden stumbled over the word “democracy” in a January speech
when he said it more than two dozen times without any problems — Trump gets the nasty laughs he seeks at someone else’s expense, especially when he sneers at a person’s physical limitations.
People who behaved that way were once scorned. Now they become the Republican nominee for president.
There
are few among us who don’t know how it feels to be the butt of a joke.
At some point in our lives, we’ve probably been the person being laughed
at instead of being someone in on the joke and chuckling with the
crowd. That includes Trump’s supporters. But with their always aggrieved
state of mind, they have anointed Trump as a strongman who allows them
to belittle those they see as their lessers. To paraphrase the great Toni Morrison,
they can only feel tall when someone else has been knocked to their
knees. For them, Trump’s enemies are their enemies and those people
deserve nothing but public derision. [snip]
Trump never
offends only those he targets. There’s always collateral damage when
someone with a national bully pulpit demeans a person with a stutter or
physical disability. And every laugh, every whoop from his minions, not
only convinces Trump that he’s right but that his aberrant behavior is
what his followers have come to expect.
Yes,
the hippocampus keeps score. But don’t just criticize the unfunny man
who uses human frailty as a punch line. Remember the ones who in their
devotion to a would-be tyrant will always laugh the loudest.
This is raw American fascism pure and simple, and these are the stormtroopers willing to carry out the monster's will, win or lose. Once again, forewarned is forearmed.
BONUS: One example, out of millions, of Cultist Trumpicanis.
BONUS II: Fact checking the Malignant Loser's lies in that Georgia rally takes up a full page in the Washington Post.
BONUS III: The Biden campaign punches back --
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