Yep. Donald loves the ‘threaten what they love and/or promise them what they want’ tool in the toolbox. As witness the Homeland Security post from earlier in the week, in which Donald’s minions essentially promise the yahoos “affordable housing” in exchange from helping out with US ethnic cleansing:
I regret to say that I’m so ignorant of hockey that I had to look up the connection between “powerplay” and “penalty box.”
But I did learn something!
Kick out your neighbors and YOU can work for below minimum wage.
This is awfully ballsy, considering the source.
Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections
The comments, made on a conservative podcast, follow a string of moves from his administration to try to exert more control over American elections.
President Trump called in a new interview for the Republican Party to “nationalize” voting in the United States, an aggressive rhetorical step that was likely to raise new worries about his administration’s efforts to involve itself in election matters as he and his allies continue to make false claims about his 2020 defeat.
During an extended monologue about immigration on a podcast released on Monday by Dan Bongino, his former deputy F.B.I. director, Mr. Trump called for Republican officials to “take over” voting procedures in 15 states, though he did not name them.
“The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over,’” he said. “We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many — 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”
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During his interview with Mr. Bongino, Mr. Trump tied his desire for partisan control of voting mechanisms to his administration’s agenda to find and deport undocumented immigrants from American cities.“If Republicans don’t get them out, you will never win another election as a Republican,” he said, referring to undocumented immigrants. “It’s crazy how you can get these people to vote. If we don’t get them out, look, Republicans will never win another election.”
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I can’t keep up. I thought Bongino was out. He’s not?
Bongino is just doing podcasts now. Trump was a guest.
Ah, I guess he’s writing his book.
As a Brit, forgive my ignorance, but how, by definition, can ‘undocumented immigrants’ vote? Let me guess, Trump was lying again?
Correct on Trump lying. Repeatedly. Unceasingly. Willfully and Knowingly.
Verbal diarrhea for the cult’s consumption. Stoking their fears and hates.
By not being white.
So there is a chance that I, a Zimbabwean white guy, could illegally vote? I’ll start saving for an airplane ticket immediately!
You see, in 2017, the esteemed President of the United States, Donald J Trump, created an organization called the Presidential Advisory Committee on Election Integrity, to get to the bottom of the very thing you are inquiring about.
But then, to everyone’s shock…
Trump Dissolves Controversial Election Commission
Trump created the commission in May 2017 after he continued to insist that as many as 5 million votes were cast illegally in the November 2016 presidential election where he bested Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. But there has been no evidence to back up that claim, and the president’s assertions have been dismissed by election officials and experts.
And furthermore:
An exploration of Donald Trump’s allegations of massive voter fraud in the 2016 General Election
Consistent with existing literature, we do not uncover any evidence supportive of Trump’s assertions about systematic voter fraud in 2016. Our results imply neither that there was no fraud at all in the 2016 General Election nor that this election’s administration was error-free. They do strongly suggest, however, that the expansive voter fraud concerns espoused by Donald Trump and those allied with him are not grounded in any observable features of the 2016 election.
In other words, Trump was clearly, decisively, and exhaustively proven to be completely full of shit. Yet he rode this all the way to the January 6 insurrection years later, because his followers are dumber than a box of rocks, and as well are paranoid, insecure racists convinced that dark-skinned bogeymen lurk behind every corner trying to steal away their pure, white land.
Well, only if you agree to illegally vote the right <heh, heh> way.
Hm… Seems to me that that has been tried elsewhere, a while ago.
Yeah, these authoritarians all use the same playbook.
From Fatherland, by Robert Harris (alt-history where the Reich won the European war):
Every week the newspapers and television carried appeals from the East Ministry for settlers willing to move to the General Government*. “Germans! Claim your birthright! A farmstead—free! Income guaranteed for the first five years.” The advertisements showed happy colonists living in luxury. But word of the real story had filtered back—an existence conditioned by poor soil, backbreaking work, and drab satellite towns to which the Germans had to return at dusk for fear of attack by local partisans. The General Government was worse than the Ukraine, worse than Ostland; worse, even, than Muscovy.
* The part of what had been Poland left over after western sections had been carved out and Germanized.
I am so sick of his trying to name everything after himself. It’s getting almost comical that he has to have his name everywhere.
So far, we have:
The Trump Institute of Peace
The Trump Kennedy Center
Trump Accounts for children
Trump Rx
Things that will be presumably named for him:
The Trump Ballroom
The Trump Arch
Changes he is lobbying for:
Change Dulles to Trump International Airport
Change Penn Station to Trump Station
I am sure I am missing a lot. The ones that bother me most are TrumpRx and the Trump Accounts because they both have some possible benefits and I fear the name will stick.
Every time I think that he is blatantly hit a new low and cannot possibly outrage me any further…
He does so.
He posted a video about an hour ago on his social media depicting the Obamas as apes in a jungle.. I would link to the story but it’s on the updates page on cnn, it is not its own article even though it should be, in my opinion. It kind of sad when a story like this is just a passing update.
I wish I was making this up.
It’s being reported that the video was obviously and extremely racist, not just a little bit but a lot.
And this is our president. That’s just great.
There’s a story about it on The Hill. The WH is defending it as just being a “Lion King” meme that depicts Trump as King over Dems. Just more distraction from Epstein.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5726242-trump-lion-king-meme-criticism/
I’m sort of thinking when Trump goes room temperature, there is going to be an avalanche of truly awful awful things coming out.
Things named for him will no longer be named for him, and I figure I’ll celebrate that fact each and every time. Won’t be good for my liver. Invest in champagne stock.
Literally and figuratively.
Hey, how about we name the new pterosaur after him
The Trump Regurgitalite
It rolls off the tongue, and brings up a wonderful image.