Trump is their retribution
Trump took his show on the road yesterday.
The former president spent his wide-ranging, nearly two-hour remarks rehashing the “America First” agenda that has played well with his base.
With “wide-ranging” meaning rambling and incoherent.
“In 2016, I declared I am your voice,” he said. “Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution.”
He’s downright biblical!
Speaking with reporters before the speech, Trump said he would stay in the race even if he is indicted in ongoing criminal investigations of his handling of presidential documents and his role in instigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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After months of attacking Fox News, which aired his Saturday remarks, he said in his speech that television personalities Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters and Tucker Carlson should be awarded Pulitzer Prizes.
And Nobel Prizes and Oscars and a pony.
Bolsonaro was there too, and gave his own speech.
Bolsonaro was a fitting opener for Trump, given his numerous ties to the former president’s administration. He has been counseled by Trump advisers Stephen K. Bannon and Stephen Miller, and, like Trump, stoked anger among his base after he lost the election, suggested the win by his left-wing opponent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was fraudulent. Critics say his comments helped foment a Jan. 6-style riot in Brasília on Jan. 8 of this year.
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Brazilian prosecutors are investigating him for spreading election misinformation, interfering with the federal police and leaking classified information.
He is also under investigation for genocide, with Indigenous groups and their defenders arguing that his public derision of them, and his refusal to stop illegal mining in the Amazon, sparked a widespread environmental and public health crisis that killed dozens.
Nice company.
““I don’t consider myself a celebrity,” Trump told reporters.”
Nah, but he considers himself every waking hour. Celebrity doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Jesus! I can barely stand a couple of minutes of his stream-of-conciousness, Gish gallops of narcissism and stupid. I’d be trying to tear my own head off after the first fifteen minutes. Nearly two hours?! Give me Vogon poetry any day.
I’m torn between wanting his run for the presidency to be terminated, and wanting to see Biden beat him twice.
It is Vogon poetry.
Strong men, I mean the ones who talk like him, are not the sort of leader who is going to ensure liberty. The freedom people don’t really want freedom, because then the wrong sort of people will have freedom. They want the freedom to be top dog again, which is what MAGA means.
He’s being supported by the people like the guy in Free Republic (remember Freepers?) that told me in all seriousness, that liberals should be hunted down like dogs and shot.
Not free, not a Republic. But that’s his base.