Not to mention not testifying has nothing to do with innocence. That’s not how our justice system works.
“You see the mob takes the Fifth,” he said during one rally in Iowa. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
In a rant rife with misspellings and baseless conspiracy, Trump wrote, “What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination.”
The ex-president continued, “He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!!”
That is some batshit insane ranting. Like really really crazy, and in a weird way.
- He HATES that he lost to Biden and so desperately wanted to beat him second time round and now he’ll always have lost to Biden and never won, so he’s really struggling to accept that reality and desperately wants to go back to beating Biden in the polls.
- This is absolutely how he would behave if he were in Biden’s position right now so he thinks this is plausible and people might believe it.
- He wouldn’t recognise altruism if it turned up in his house with free burgers every lunchtime singing “Altruism is doing something nice for someone else with nothing in return, nothing in return, nothing in return. Altruism is doing something nice for someone else with nothing in return, nothing in return, nothing in return.” He would like it, and he would tweet about how the hamberder people were good people, great people who know how great trump is, but he wouldn’t understand and wouldn’t learn anything because it’s so alien to his way of thinking. Of course he finds it incomprehensible that Biden might not be seething with rage right now.
- His thinking is completely inflexible. He’s quite simply unable to adapt to his new opponents. He’s spent so long practising insulting biden in the mirror and now he can’t use his repertoire.
It’s a bitter irony that all the playground bully insults that the MAGA’s have hurled at Biden for the past 4+ years became completely useless in a matter of seconds.
“Sleepy Joe”, “Let’s go Brandon”, etc. are now totally meaningless.
Ignoring the obvious things here; how would Biden re-entering nominations count as “stealing back the nomination”. I thought Kamala supposedly stole it from him? Did both of them steal it from Trump?
I think it’s just a matter of word choice. If your neighbor breaks into your shed and takes your bike, and puts it in their shed, they’ve stolen it. If you break into their shed, take it back, and put it back in your shed, then you might say you “stole it back” even though it’s yours.
True, but if you give your younger friend your bike, saying “Here, have my bike, you’ll do better with it than I will now”, and then publicly praise your friend for how great a bike rider they are, but some weird crazed racist lunatic who hasn’t been able to finish a coherent sentence for years and years rants about how you made the biggest mistake of your life and fantasies about you beating up your young friend for taking your bike, no one has stolen anything.
I wonder how the plutocrats and the christofascists will try to carry out their plan of destroying US democracy and imposing autocracy after the stinky old weirdo they’ve pinned all their hopes on has a screeching public meltdown.
Serious answer? Just wait 4 years. Rename it to Project 2029 or 2033 or 2037, as often as needed. That’s the really exhausting part. Now that they have this plan, we have to defeat it every time. The figurehead is not as important as the plan. They’ll be another candidate willing to become a dictator, I’m sure.
Ehhh, they have a window right now that they don’t have if they keep losing elections. With less Rs in Congress and the supreme Court, that window closes forever. Churches all over the country are losing support, and members, just like the Republican party. True they’ve been planning this for decades but if it doesn’t happen this cycle or next, it’s over for them.
Also, Trump and his cult is a truly unique phenomenon that won’t be easily reproducable. Just look at how desperately Ted Cruz tries to be the next Trump and fails spectacularly.
Trump is the walking definition of ‘useful idiot’.
