An impassioned but doomed plea
The Guardian has more on that furious plea to stop the lies:
One of Georgia’s top election officials has made an impassioned plea to Donald Trump to tone down his rhetoric disputing the election results, saying the president is “inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence”.
He wants to though. He would love to see violence erupt because of his lies. I’m completely serious: he does, he would, that’s what he is.
Gabriel Sterling, a Republican who oversaw the implementation of the state’s new voting system, also issued the stark warning that if Trump does not rein in his supporters then “someone is going to get hurt”.
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Sterling, the voting systems manager for the Georgia secretary of state’s office, said last week that he had police protection around his home because of threats he received after election results were announced. Trump lost Georgia to Biden by around 13,000 votes.
Sterling also said that the wife of Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, had received “sexualized threats”.
Raffensperger has been the target of constant attacks from the president over his defeat in Georgia, and he recently told the Guardian he had received death threats. Last week, Trump had called Raffensperger an “enemy of the people”, Sterling noted, adding: “That helped open the floodgates to this kind of crap.”
And Trump wants them open and he won’t do one thing to close them. No chance.
At this point, one could splice together the sound from one of Trump’s rallies with the video from one of Hitler’s, and vice versa, and would be hard put to tell the difference.
The difference is that one of them doesn’t speak English very well, and the other is Adolph Hitler.
Odd how many Republicans are only becoming concerned about this sort of thing now that Trump is feeding chaos into their efforts to win the Georgia Senate seats.
Trump could arguably use a makeover. Hitler’s family name was Schicklgruber, but ‘Heil Schicklgruber’ lacks a certain something. ‘Heil Hitler’, Nuremberg rallies and torchlight parades went together like fish and chips.
‘Trump rhymes with bump, dump, grump, sump, stump, rump, hump, lump, jump, mump/s – though one can possibly have a mild case of one single mump. But these are hardly words suggesting or going naturally with glory, patriotism, victory and all that Hollywood stuff.
It’s a tough one. That’s it…! Why didn’t I think of it before?
Donald Tough..! Or maybe Donald Rough. Trump might just buy it, even if the rest of the world won’t. He’s got that sort of mind; I mean ego.
I missed it on the first reading, but “Mr. President” did hear, and “Mr. President” responded. And the response from “Mr. President” is sooo predictable, it isn’t even funny.
Yeah, they have received death threats. And the latter, a call for execution from a “lawyer”. Nothing to be afraid of there, is there? It’s just normal political discourse, that’s all.
Yes, we know: They’ll find nothing. And they’ll “find” massive voter fraud.
I think my quote keys are wearing out. I’d better stop.
People talk about him as though he’s making a mistake and not meaning what’s happening. Show’s the terror involved.
Hitler had his “Stab-in-the-back” myth and Trump has his rigged election mythos. Both used/will use their big lie to fortify their position and embolden their most rabid supporters while the opposition seemingly holds the power. Winning this last election is just round one. A change or political burnout in one quarter of one percent of the US population’s votes and we will be right back in the shit.