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Nevilledog

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Thu Sep 22, 2022, 01:04 PM Sep 2022

Trump's QAnon cult rally: So you thought the fever was breaking?



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The fascist fever dream is getting worse. Trump's Youngstown cult meeting political rally is just a sign of how much more dangerous the Republican fascists and the MAGAite forces are becoming. I explain more in my new @Salon:

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Trump's QAnon cult rally: So you thought the fever was breaking?
Yes, it really was that bad. Mussolini-style rants, revenge fantasies and now murderous cult symbols. With music!
9:41 AM · Sep 22, 2022


https://www.salon.com/2022/09/22/donald-qanon-rally-if-you-thought-the-was-breaking-think-again/

Donald Trump continues to be the most dangerous man in America. Many people do not want to hear that; this version of reality is like an exhausting nightmare. But America needs to face the truth, and there isn't much time left.

Last Saturday, Trump held a political rally in Youngstown, Ohio. Officially it was in support of U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance, but as usual it was mostly a tribute to Trump himself, who delivered an epic speech that seemed equal parts Mussolini, horror movie and cult ritual.

Trump told outrageous lies about Biden, asserting that he is mentally incompetent and and is likely to start a world war through his weakness. His speech was full of the usual white victimology and fantasies of vengeance, but was even more grotesque and delusional than usual. He accused "the radical Democrats and the deep state" of practicing "a form of political repression unlike anything our nation has ever seen," which was obvious projection. So was this:

Everyone associated with this travesty will go down in history as scoundrels and arsonists who try to demolish our justice system, shatter our most sacred traditions and wipe out the very foundations of our democracy for their own selfish, partisan gain and probably other reasons that we'll never know. ...

They spy on my campaign and nobody wants to do anything about it. ... We had a couple of attorney generals who weren't too great. But no matter what our sick and deranged political establishment throws at me, no matter what they do to me, I will endure their torment and oppression and I will do it very willingly. They will never get me to stop fighting for you, the American people.


Trump continued: with an attack on the "cruel and vindictive political class," which he said was coming after him, but not just him:

They're coming after you through me. That's what they're doing. And they've already taken away your vote. They've taken away your voice and now they want to take away your freedom. ... But as Biden laid out in that hateful and extremely divisive speech in Philadelphia ... the radical Democrats view 75 million Americans as enemies to be canceled and suppress. ... They want to censor you from the internet, banish you from the public square, get you fired from your jobs, target you for destruction with 87,000 new IRS agents. ...

But the thugs and tyrants attacking our movement — and there's never been a movement even close in the history of the United States — have no idea of the sleeping giant that they have awoken.


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Trump's QAnon cult rally: So you thought the fever was breaking? (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2022 OP
Sleeping giant. That's what they said on January 6. That giant is taking a long nap Walleye Sep 2022 #1
Why that's just terrible, Donald gratuitous Sep 2022 #2
Save America central scrutinizer Sep 2022 #3
The raised arm is NAZI, the one finger 'one more time' sanatanadharma Sep 2022 #4
Caligula combover ordered the crowd that follows him from rally to rally to salute him PortTack Sep 2022 #5

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. Why that's just terrible, Donald
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 01:09 PM
Sep 2022

There was a spy on your campaign, and you just kept employing that person and (presumably) paying him or her? As for those attorneys general (not attorney generals, you illiterate fuck) who weren't too great, did you fire whoever hired them?

What a pathetic loser.

central scrutinizer

(11,617 posts)
3. Save America
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 01:42 PM
Sep 2022

The new catch phrase makes it clear. The Manchurian Cantaloupe is the savior. Bow down before your lord and savior. Give him all your money, your fealty, your life if needed.

sanatanadharma

(3,639 posts)
4. The raised arm is NAZI, the one finger 'one more time'
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 02:15 PM
Sep 2022

By their neo-nazi hand signs they will be known.
Their karmic-comeuppence will come in ways they do nazi.

PortTack

(32,606 posts)
5. Caligula combover ordered the crowd that follows him from rally to rally to salute him
Thu Sep 22, 2022, 03:13 PM
Sep 2022

It’s totally staged.

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