Donald Trump gave a rambling two-hour speech at a right-wing conference where he branded the U.S. a “third-world hellhole” under President Biden’s leadership. He falsely claimed the 2020 election was rigged and investigations against him are an attempt to rig the 2024 election. He threatened to revoke funding from universities and pledged to revive the Muslim ban, mass deportations, and ending birthright citizenship. Several speakers at the conference made inflammatory claims about transgender people, calling transition healthcare “Mengele-like experimentation” and referring to trans people as “freaks” and "perverts.

Former Fox News personality Megyn Kelly said she no longer has empathy for people experiencing gender dysphoria. “There should be a healthy measure of ridicule,” she told Kirk during a lengthy discussion about trans people and the erasure of trans rights, which Kirk said is a “winner politically for Republicans.”

These people are fucking ghouls.

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Just a few more steps and she’ll be saying “are these trans people even people anyway?”

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Publicly. They already say it in private.

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In private I bet most of these people don’t talk about it at all. They probably don’t actually have strong opinions on the subject one way or the other. They just use the hate to inflame their tool followers to keep themselves in their positions of wealth.

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“The election will decide whether your generation will inherit a fascist country or a free country, “ Mr Trump told the right-wing activist conference.

He’s not wrong; he’s just not on the side he thinks he is.

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that’s what both sides say! how am I to know which side is telling the truth?

edit: (there was an /s in there)

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…because one side wants to eradicate a group of people (trans people) for their personal choices that they have nothing to do with, and take away rights from people that affect them in exactly no ways.

What does the left want to do that’s fascist?

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Just remember to apply opposite logic to anything republicans say, and it’s clearer.

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This is all coded language. When he says “thugs” he means black people. When he says “perverts” he means LGBTQ. This is straight up nazi rhetoric.

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But, its always in China town, or “China Flu”.

I can’t imagine anything worse than working alongside him. Surely everyone who ever worked alongside him would be frustrated with him lying about everything to his managers

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While you’re right, my mind immediately couldn’t help but notice the irony that he used to run the place.

And that he happens to preside over a criminal enterprise and be questionable in his morality.

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Everything is projection with this guy.

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You beat me to it. I was thinking the same thing.

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Only by 2 minutes. We’ll call it a tie, random internet friend.

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Every accusation a confession.

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First thing I thought as well. Thugs and perverts - does he mean himself and the people running corporations willing to let others suffer / manipulate the law and government? Like the Hollywood exec who said they want people to lose their homes?

Cause that sounds pretty thuggish and perverse to me.

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He was president for four years. He ran on making the place great again (?). Why didn’t he? Golf was more important?

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