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 III: The Biden campaign punches back --
Biden-Harris campaign statement on Trump tonight promising a “bloodbath” if he loses pic.twitter.com/8mBYh4QKnf
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) March 17, 2024
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