trump praises Putin and Xi at Pennsylvania rally

[EvilCat Breath]

EvilCat Breath, I followed very your link, and this is the information I got when it didn't go through:

Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead

Server detected a potential security threat
and did not continue to www.libertyone.com.
If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information
like your passwords, emails, or credit card details.​

Very odd because that is not what I get.

 

[Mac-7]

Trump compliments 'fierce' and 'smart' Putin and applauds Xi Jinping for ruling China with an 'iron fist'

Speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, former President Donald Trump praised Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

www.businessinsider.com

This is the Leader of the repub party praising two Dictators. We know who he is.

A wise man knows and understands his enemy

Liberals may think putin and xi are pushovers but the rest of us know better

 

[BlueGin]

Do you agree or disagree with what he said during his presentation? Why or why not? Please be specific.

I doubt the script of DNC platitudes it reads from can answer that question.

 

[Sixties Fan]

There it is. Cast anyone who questions your point of view an extremist. Solid.

You are an extremist. One of many MAGA Trump followers.

Georgia Republican voters reject more of Trump's primary picks, while a late pick prevails in Alabama | CNN Politics

Another election day in Georgia has brought a further round of defeats for former President Donald Trump and his chosen Republican candidates.

www.cnn.com

 

[beautress]

Very odd because that is not what I get.

Lucky you.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Lucky you.

Lucky you.

Excerpt
The truth is going to prove that Joe Biden did not win the election. He cheated. Further evidence was revealed only a few days ago. The Daily Mail reports that yet another tray of mail-in ballots has mysteriously been discovered at a U.S. Post Office.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Excerpt
The truth is going to prove that Joe Biden did not win the election. He cheated. Further evidence was revealed only a few days ago. The Daily Mail reports that yet another tray of mail-in ballots has mysteriously been discovered at a U.S. Post Office.

LInk?
Do you think any court is going to listen to it, finally?
The Supreme Court?

Conspiracy theory is not mysterious. It is pure conspiracy to get something in an illegal way.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Excerpt
The truth is going to prove that Joe Biden did not win the election. He cheated. Further evidence was revealed only a few days ago. The Daily Mail reports that yet another tray of mail-in ballots has mysteriously been discovered at a U.S. Post Office.

Who were the votes for that were discovered? Biden? Why would that be necessary? Biden already holds the office of president, and finding more "fake" votes would be carrying coals to Newcastle (old British saying, look it up).

And, if the mail in ballots were for Trump, why? I thought you guys were saying that only Biden had the mail in ballots that gave him the election.

 

[okfine]

Remember Trump rallies were called "Pitty Parties"

His 2 hour rant is now labeled the "Grievance Tour"

 

[Sixties Fan]

Excerpt
The truth is going to prove that Joe Biden did not win the election. He cheated. Further evidence was revealed only a few days ago. The Daily Mail reports that yet another tray of mail-in ballots has mysteriously been discovered at a U.S. Post Office.

Donald Trump admitted defeat in the 2020 election for the first time on Wednesday night, telling Fox News: 'We didn't win.'

The former president, in a wide-ranging interview with Sean Hannity, conceded at last that Joe Biden had beaten him.

'We were supposed to win easily, 64 million votes,' said Trump.

'We didn't win': Trump appears to accept election loss for first time

The former president on Wednesday night conceded that he had not won the election - seven months after the votes were cast. He did add a caveat, though, saying: 'Let's see what happens.'

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[okfine]

Lucky you.

His security setting allows what yours won't, most likely.

 

[Dragonlady]

And we were wondering when you guys would continue going after DeSantis....

DeSantis is even crazier than Trump and in some ways, far more dangerous, because he knows how government works.

Trump was stating the obvious. America is in a world of shit if that is wrong.

Well, golly gee, both of these men were not nearly as powerful or emboldened when Obama was in office as they were after 4 years of Trump in office.

Trump just let both of them have their way in the Middle East and Asia when he was in office.

 

[BackAgain]

[Continue not to care and play the Trump is a great, honest man, All American guy. He was already showing signs of using the Dictator's playbook during the Presidential candidacy ]

[ Below are all the things Trump did do before the 2016 election which ended up being the same things he continued to do after he became President and continues to do after leaving office]

[ Deny and walk around or over all of what has happened and continues to happen]

Rule 1: Wink at violent supporters to intimidate the opposition​

Here's Donald Trump on February 1, exhorting his supporters at a rally in Iowa to physically attack protesters:



In subsequent weeks, Trump has said that protesters are a "problem" that he implies or outright says his supporters should solve by physically attacking them. When a demonstrator interrupted a Michigan event, Trump instructed the crowd to "get him out," before sneering, "Try not to hurt him too much."

Trump then told the audience that a protester had been "swinging and punching" at a rally in New Hampshire, and that it was "amazing to watch" as the crowd "took him out."

And on March 13, Trump tweeted what seemed pretty clearly intended as a threat that his supporters would violently disrupt events held by Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders:




Dictators such as Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe would find this approach very familiar. For example, just a few weeks ago, six vans full of stone-throwing thugs who were believed to be supporters of Mugabe's Zanu-PF party attacked an opposition rally, breaking up the event and sending at least one person to the hospital.

For people like Mugabe, the point of this strategy is to consolidate his own power by undermining opposition support. It reminds people that dissent is dangerous, making it difficult for opposition leaders to organize public events.

Rule 2: Tell your supporters that your political opponents are enemies of the state​

At a Missouri event, Trump escalated his anti-protester rhetoric, saying that the failure to rough up protesters was an example of the kind of "political correctness" that is hurting the country.

"Protesters, they realize there are no consequences to protesting anymore," he said, suggesting maybe there should be some consequences. "These people are so bad for our country, you have no idea."

Trump has also been a prominent voice of the "birther" movement, which claims that President Obama was born in Kenya and is therefore an untrustworthy foreigner whose claim to the presidency is illegitimate.

Rule 3: Intimidate or co-opt journalists to ensure positive coverage​

On March 8, Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, allegedly assaulted Breitbart journalist Michelle Fields, grabbing her arm and pulling her away from Trump with such force that she was left with multiple bruises.

Rule 4: Use strict libel and sedition laws as weapons​

"I've never said this before. I’m going to open up our libel laws so when [journalists] write purposely negative and horrible and false articles we can sue them and win lots of money."

Rule 5: Hint that if the election doesn’t go your way, your supporters will respond violently​

Trump has to be aware of speculation that GOP leaders might try to nominate another candidate at the national convention in July, and he's putting out warnings about what will happen if they do.

"I think we’ll win before getting to the convention. But I can tell you, if we didn’t and If we‘re 20 votes short or if we’re 100 short, and we’re at 1,100 and someone else is at 500 or 400 cause we’re way ahead of everybody ... I think you’d have riots," he said on CNN.

When the dictator's playbook doesn't work in America​

But in the long term, this playbook will only take Trump so far. Even if he wanted to be America's own Putin or Sisi, there's no reason to expect that he will be, and we can already see the playbook proving less effective here in America than it might be elsewhere.

For example, Trump can only accomplish so much by urging protesters to violence, because the American legal system is strong enough to enforce rule of law no matter how wild Trump's rhetoric gets.

John McGraw, a Trump supporter who sucker-punched a protester at a rally in North Carolina, has been arrested and charged with assault and battery. Trump can't actually shield someone like McGraw from legal consequences (though he did offer to pay McGraw's legal fees). Whereas in an actual dictatorship angry mobs can feel comfortable in the assurance that they won't face punishment for doing their leaders' bidding, because the courts are more easily co-opted or cowed by an angry leader, in the US things are different.

Similarly, there's no indication that Trump's bullying of journalists has actually silenced negative coverage. On the contrary, it's led to even harsher criticism of Trump in both the mainstream and conservative media. His threats to "open up" libel and defamation law is empty: Such laws are limited by the First Amendment, which means that Trump would need to change the Constitution, which he can't do on his own.

This is not to say that we should sit back and relax, content that this country's institutions and traditions will protect our freedoms and values. As Dartmouth professor Brendan Nyhan pointed out on Twitter, Trump's candidacy itself is a symptom of institutions not being as strong as they ought to have been.



(full article online)

Donald Trump’s tactics are disturbingly similar to those of actual dictators

Is Trump competing in The Apprentice: Dictator Edition?

www.vox.com

Too long. Didn’t even skim.

 

[Meathead]

Trump just let both of them have their way in the Middle East and Asia when he was in office.

Ukraine? Even by liberal Canadian standards, you're a dingbat.

 

[JimH52]

trump will only be happy when his rhetoric of hate and extremism caused more violence and death. He is actually stoking his cult into a civil war. The search on Mar a Lago was a results of his lies and stonewalling efforts to return classified documents to their rightful place.

He turns it in the FBI being out of control when in reality they have cut him months of slack...when anyone else would have been jailed long ago.

 

[Couchpotato]

No, fool. Only when is proven that they're lying. Which in the case of the 2020 election, their every challenge has been completely debunked.

Trump is only keeping the lie going to fund raise off it, and gin up outrage.

So Hillary wasnt lying?

Al Gore?


Stacy Abrams?

It’s only when the other side says there’s something wrong with the election that it’s lying and anti democracy. Just checking

 

[bripat9643]

As I've said before....any of us who have handled classified material, if we'd done this we'd be in Leavenworth by now.

You mean like Hillary?

You're obviously full of shit.

 

[Winco]

Do you know, FOR A FACT, he sold classified material to anyone?

What we do know is:

1). Trump stole top Secret Documents. FACT
2). Trump took stolen Top Secret Documents home with him. FACT
3). Trump stored these stolen documents in unsecure locations. FACT
4). Some Stolen Documents are NOW missing. FACT

 

[Couchpotato]

You are an extremist. One of many MAGA Trump followers.

Georgia Republican voters reject more of Trump's primary picks, while a late pick prevails in Alabama | CNN Politics

Another election day in Georgia has brought a further round of defeats for former President Donald Trump and his chosen Republican candidates.

www.cnn.com

LOL and what have I said that makes me an extremist?

 

[Couchpotato]

What we do know is:

1). Trump stole top Secret Documents. FACT
2). Trump took stolen Top Secret Documents home with him. FACT
3). Trump stored these stolen documents in unsecure locations. FACT
4). Some Stolen Documents are NOW missing. FACT

How do you get to #4?