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  I almost didn’t click on this. I think I’m getting better.
context: Explain it to a grand jury, asshole. >
  
  Well he’s in luck because it seems that he’s above the law at this point >
  
  That was with slowpoke Merrick Garland, who has thankfully handed it off now.  I'm still hoping for a better ending to this bullshit. >
  
  He should have never been in the public zeitgeist. He was a fraud when he was milking a constructed image in the 80s and 90s. The apprentice was a propoganadisized mirror of society’s worst inclinations. He rode a wave of our worst angels. He’s a shell of a human, a textbook of everything wrong, and I’m tired of seeing his stupid face. >
  
  He still has a cult of maybe 40+ million braindead followers.  It won't end until he either dies or flees the country, unfortunately. >
  
  He got over 70 million votes in 2020. >
  
  There were a lot for republican fellow-travelers who voted for him, but they were not in the cult.   And the cult has gotten smaller since 2022. >
  
  A lot smaller. Republicans bought all that bs about him being a winner, even though he lost by 3 million votes and was just flat lucky to get appointed. But now after losing by 7 million to another weak opponent and then Jan 6, top secret docs, and various other stuff they are finally seeing him for what he is. >
  
  “The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”
  - H.L. Mencken >
  
  But in this case I think it’s just a fellow idiot preaching to the choir. We lucked out that the Republican party didn’t nominate someone with some real intelligence in 2016. >
  
  someone with real intelligence couldnt pull off what he did - be the king of fools. he didnt win despite his ignorance he won because of it. its his appeal to his base. >
  
  Kind of agree with this. A really intelligent person would have never thought they could get away with the massive lying and shit he has pulled. >
  
  Intelligent people tend to think others will behave as rationally as they believe they themselves would. >
  
  Why did his cult smear their poo on the walls? >
  
  It makes their willies hard. >
  
  Hey woah woah, we may be scat fetishists but at least we aren't trump supporters. >
  
  It's like comparing a candle with the sun. >
  
  That's weird, Marjorie Taylor  Greene says that there was an insurrection and it would have succeeded if she had been leading it. >
  
  She actually said both. She said there was no insurrection. She said it was antifa. She said if she'd been leading them they would have been armed and would have "won."
  
  Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
  
  - Jean-Paul Sartre >
  
  I love this quote >
  
  “I’m not getting in the car,” Pence told the Secret Service detail on January 6. “If I get in that vehicle, you guys are taking off.” 
  This was the plan...this was an attempted coup... >
  
  Pence refused to get in the car because trump had sent agents from trumps own detail to pick up Pence, and Pence thought if he went with them he would be assassinated. 
  And considering the massive purge of USSS messages and call logs from j6 he may have been correct. >
  
  Not even assassinated necessarily.  Just takes away for a day or so and kept for his own safety.  Congress would then be unable to certify the electoral votes, which was the root of the whole plan.  If they can't certify, the vote goes to the House, and Trump wins, "legally". >
  
  That's not quite true. If the vote is interrupted... it resumes the next day, and the next, and the next. After 12 days congress is permitted no recess or breaks until certification is completed. If Jan 20 arrives and certification has still not been completed, the Speaker of the House assumes the powers of the presidency and oversees a special session of congress, while all other congressional business is barred. 
  Congress patched up the loophole Trump hoped to exploit around the year 1860. Delaying certification one day, or even several isn't "One Weird Trick to Seize Fascist Control of America" >
  
  
  That's not quite true. If the vote is interrupted... it resumes the next day, and the next, and the next.
  
  And if Pence is off the grounds, Grassley takes over and would have been potentially willing to seat the fake electors, or at least refuse to seat the correct ones as a result.  Now no one gets to 270 and the vote goes to the House.  Trump wins. >
  
  I await him flip flopping next week when he'll say "It was the greatest insurrection in the history of America and it was all for me." >
  
  Something something meddling kids >
  
  
  George Orwell — 'The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.' >
  
  I read 1984 when I was young, and read it again recently. Fuck me, it's some scary shit. The last chapter where he explains newspeak is chilling. >
  
  I don’t think he was close to correct with newspeak though, what is happening in the real world has to do more with the destruction of complex emotional states through slowly making everything a synonym of it’s more distant associations IMO but nonetheless a terrible and terrifying concept. >
  
  There is a subtle difference - newspeak prevented people from elaborating ideas because there was no way to express them. Today stupid apps like TikTok prevent people from thinking - we have only zombies endlessly scrolling through stupid short videos. That which is not used, atrophies. >
  
  He said on reddit >
  
  I practice “word smithing” on reddit all the time. I believe it at least engages my brain. I go back and edit alot. I learned much about using a paucity of words to convey a thought by writing commercials for radio. >
  
  Brevity is the soul of wit. >
  
  Why is that? >
  
  Timing >
  
  So pray tell, what would you call it? A demonstration? Or a standard Trump rally? >
  
  I think the right calls it "just a bunch of tourists." >
  
  It's interesting that they say that, it's the same thing Putin said when Russian agents were caught poisoning people in the UK, or when soldiers were seen in Ukraine in 2014. >
  
  He's becoming even more detached from reality.   From a recent article where he was asked if he officially declared himself a candidate for President in order to avoid prosecution:
  
  “That didn’t play into it,” Trump said. He did not like this, either. “I did nothing wrong,” he said. Had his lawyers given him that advice, as some of his advisers told me they had? “No,” he said. “I don’t know how you get indicted if you’ve done nothing wrong. I’ve done nothing wrong.”
  He repeated that phrase, “I’ve done nothing wrong,” nine times in 30 minutes. >
  
  Well, if there is one thing we know about him, if he says he didn’t do something, repeatedly, then he definitely knows he did it. >
  
  He lies like a child. It's one of the most consistent things about him. >
  
  In his own words he basically has the temperament of a first grader >
  
  Yeah paraphrasing him here but iirc “my brain basically stopped developing in first grade, I’d learned all I needed.” LOL >
  
  Probably conned some kid out of candy and said to himself 'wow I can do this for life' >
  
  He's like a God damned 5 year old claiming he didn't do it, with chocolate on his face. >
  
  Wouldn’t be too far fetched from him to call Christmas a conspiracy by Biden and ‚the libs‘ >
  
  *There was no collusion. Mueller pointed out in the very beginning of the Report that they were not looking for 'collusion' because collusion is not a legal term. This is exactly why Barr started in with the "no collusion" stuff.
  Conspiracy, however? Yeah, there was lots and lots of conspiracy, as pointed out in the Mueller Report. And that is a legal term. You never heard Barr say there was no conspiracy, because there was, it was proven, and he knew it. >
  
  Go testify under oath then, Fatboy >
  
  He will happily lie under oath >
  
  "This is bullshit, there was no insurrection there was noooot!" >
  
  "....Oh, Hi Mike!" >
  
  "....Oh, hang Mike!"
  FTFY >
  
  "I mean, attempted murder? What is that? Do they give out Nobel Prizes for attempted chemistry?" >
  
  I imagine this is exactly how his trial is going to play out. 
  “Only I could’ve executed such a masterpiece of electoral fraud!” >
  
  Trump is a total asshat and should never be allowed near a government office again.  Unless it’s the check in at a federal prison >
  
  May we all have a Christmas miracle! The indictment of Trunt by the DoJ! >
  
  Not holding my breath but hope it happens on Jan 6. That would be enjoyable. >
  
  It could very well happen on 1/6. I notice prosecutors like the dramatic anniversary announcements >
  
  
  Mr Trump posted several written posts on Truth Social after the report was issued on Thursday night, claiming in one of them that “the highly partisan Unselect Committee Report purposely fails to mention the failure of Pelosi to heed my recommendation for troops to be used in D.C., show the ‘Peacefully and Patrioticly’ words I used, or study the reason for the protest, Election Fraud. WITCH HUNT!”
  
  He is such a pathetic person. >
  
  It didn't "get tragically out of control", Donny. You incited them to violence; hence the "insurrection" part. I know words are hard for you, maybe have someone read you the definition. >
  
  So, who were the people who were chanting " Where is Mike Pence" that maybe would have killed him...
  They broke windows, doors and defecated in hallways.
  If there's no insurrection, why did Marjorie Taylor Greene and other repubblicans bragged about it? >
  
  
  So, who were the people who were chanting " Where is Mike Pence"
  
  That's a generous misremembering or mishearing the way more vicious "Hang Mike Pence", with a constructed gallows a stone's throw away. >
  
  So it was a peaceful protest that got out of control not because Trump whipped them up into a frenzy, but ONLY because Pelosi didn't follow Trumps recommendation to have more security? They just couldn't  resist smashing and destroying the Capitol because of the lack of security. What did you expect from peaceful, law abiding patriots? Smh 
  FLUSH THIS ORANGE TURD >
  
  Why would Trump have even requested 20,000 troops if all it ever was supposed to be was a peaceful protest? 
  Hmmmm 🤔 >
  
  The replies to his Truth Social posts are actually SCARY. He’ll post shit like this (or anything) and every single top reply will be images of Trump with language written over it absolutely PRAISING him, how he won the election, religious references, how dems are evil pedophiles, etc >
  
  Literally tries to overturn a Constitutionally mandated process based on known lies, claims that's not an insurrection. >
  
  Any American should be absolutely ashamed of him. >
  
  The majority of us are. Thank the fucking electoral college for this nightmare. >
  
  The only thing worse than an insurrectionist pig is a coward who denies it. >
  
  And his taxes and businesses are legitimate and correct. >
  
  And his healthcare plan will be coming next week keep an eye out for it. >
  
  Infrastructure week. >
  
  I’m tired of people never bringing up the fact that if it were Democrats on Jan 6th, the right would have wanted them and the president hanged for treason. We all know that’s true. Stop letting them pretend it isn’t, because they know it too. >
  
  There was a limp one. We all saw it. >
  
  War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 
  "I love the poorly educated." >
  
  What an absolutely ridiculous video. I don't know if anybody else caught the cuts that were constantly happening throughout that video but I would really like to see the raw footage because one can tell that this 5 minute video was probably just a small cut out of an hour-long rant. >
  
  Damn I feel sorry that you watched it haha >
  
  He needs to be made an example to anyone else who might aspire to the office but whose back story would reveal fraud, graft, corruption, criminality, deception and utterly immoral behavior. >
  
  Please arrest this man. >
  
  It wasn't an insurrection.  It was a Special Coup Operation >
  
  He needs senior living. >
  
  Fatty Warbucks knows he’s going to prison >
  
  People died for this. >
  
  Tell that to your cell mate >
  
  Trump claims ‘there was no insurrection’ in video blasting Jan 6 report
  Well alrighty then, if the "great and all-powerful, all-knowing" Trump declares "there was no insurrrection" despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary - then it MUST be true!
  Just in case:  /S
  That's like Trump claiming to be an honest man who "tells it like it is" despite his 30,000+ lies that were documented during the  4 years of his mal-administration.  And still counting, I believe. >
  
  Is there actually a list of all these lies? >
  
  
  Is there actually a list of all these lies?
  
  Yep, a Google search of the Washington Post's tracking of Trump's falsehoods told during his mal-administration should turn up plenty of articles on the subject. >
  
  "look guys, I did the whole mob boss thing where I said explicitly to go take the country back 'peacefully' and 'patriotically'! Is there no respect for mafioso loopholes anymore??"
  -Donald J. Trump >
  
  Gaslighter extraordinaire. So pathetic.  Everyone is saying it.