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[–] 400 points 2 years ago (21 children)

Other clips from the rally went viral as well, including Trump saying, “I’m for us. You know how you spell us, right? U.S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before?”

I hate this timeline so much.

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  • [–] 88 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    Jesus. This sounds like literally every parody version of George W Bush, trying to get a laugh out of how massively exaggerated they made his stupidity.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    Just because Donald Trump is a moron doesn't mean George W Bush wasn't incredibly stupid. Both things can be true.

    Let's not forget that Bush only graduated from college because his parents donated money to keep him from being given failing grades and flunking out.

    There are entire buildings on the Yale campus that only exist because W was such a poor student.

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    [–] 188 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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    [–] 171 points 2 years ago (21 children)

    “I’m for us. You know how you spell us, right? U.S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before?”

    jfc

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    [–] 152 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Sounds like another coup attempt being foreshadowed by Trump

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    Yeah, though I wouldn't be surprised if he legit didn't really want to be president in the first place, but the opportunity to fleece more people was too great for him to pass up so he just ran with it and can't stop now.

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    [–] 118 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm not going to worry about voting on election night. Because I will have voted days/weeks earlier through my state's effective vote by mail system.

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    [–] 109 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Didn't South Park already kind of pick up on the fact that Trump gives off the vibe that he doesn't REALLY want to be President, he just wants the perks of campaigning?

    Mr. Garrison in like a whole 8 months of clips basically plots and plans on how he can get OUT of it, only to keep finding himself in situations where he somehow gets further in the polls.

    This feels exactly like that.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    He just wants his name in lights. It's a personality disorder.

    He doesn't want to do anything. He never has had to.

    It's not talked about how just so seriously mentally ill trump is. The Goldwater rule is probably for the best, but trump is, well, just look into the DSM. Way worse than Goldwater.The wiki captures it as well.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    I went to a lecture of a criminal psychologist recently about psychopathy. Psychopaths are often also narcissists, and there are a number of personality traits to identify them. The more traits one has, the more likely the person is a clinical narcissist. Trump would check all those boxes, every single one.

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    [–] 98 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

    I never knew that such a large portion of our population was so far below what I would have thought was the average intelligence until I heard they thought this man was smart. This guy is an idiot and that scares me to think what that means about his cult members’ intelligence levels.

    No one dumb enough to think this guy is smart should be trusted with any adult responsibilities; not gun ownership, not voting and definitely not reproducing.

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    [–] 96 points 2 years ago

    Me after reading the headline: "Haha, that's hilarious! Yes, Trump voters, don't worry about voting!"

    Me after reading the article: "Well, that was disturbing."

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  • [–] 96 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    You don’t have to vote, don’t worry about voting. The voting, we got plenty of votes.

    Why does it sound like he's got a mountain of fake ballots sitting in a warehouse that he's gonna drop from a blimp or some shit.

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    [–] 92 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    "Watch the voters"

    We already have poll watchers, is he really trying to go full 1933 nazi and have his zealots "monitor" voters?

    Great.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Watch them for what exactly? For... Voting for another candidate? I don't understand. Like. They are looking for fraud? What would that look like?

    I don't get it. Like if I went and watched the people at my local voting center, I would see a bunch of senior citizen voulenteers handing out ballots, and then I would see people putting their ballots into the big scantron machine thing. That's what it would look like. That's what it looks like every time.

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    [–] 79 points 2 years ago (26 children)

    It's so he can start bitching more and more after he loses again and his cult can try to overthrow the government again.

    He wants to break the system, dumbasses.

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    [–] 76 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Asking your supporters to engage in voter intimidation for the next election when you've been charged, and will be tried shortly, for leading an insurrection after the last election seems like a great game plan. /s

    I can't imagine being this guys lawyer. You must either be eating a handful of Tums every night, or your just as loony as him and actually don't see how everything he says and does it toxic to himself and everyone in his orbit.

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    [–] 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Other clips from the rally went viral as well, including Trump saying, “I’m for us. You know how you spell us, right? U.S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before?”

    No, Donnie. No one has ever thought of this. You're the first, you beautiful genius. /s

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    [–] 52 points 2 years ago

    Sounds like he's instructing his people to harass and intimidate voters. Add it to the pile of crimes?

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  • [+] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)
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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I agree, it would be a complete waste of time for they to vote

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago (25 children)

    Ya know... This is actually super wild for him to say. lol

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Seems like he is calling for his supporters to swarm polling stations and scare away anyone who looks like a Democrat. He is counting on violence or the threat of it to give him a win.

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    Let's game this out the way some of the comments are saying.

    Scenario 1: Proud Boys and other right wing militant groups stand around polling places with open carry weapons to intimidate Democrat-leaning districts. Maybe it doesn't chase everyone away, but we know a lot of election officials are complaining about threats and have quit. So it's going to have some effect. Enough to swing the vote? I don't think that matters. It's still election interference.

    Scenario 2: right wing militants show up, and so do various antifa groups to counter them. Maybe antifa show up armed, maybe not. Either way, it's an escalation. Escalating tensions with guns present significantly increases the chances that someone uses their gun, regardless of who shoots first. The first shots in a civil war? Then the right wing militants win, because they've been agitating for this for years. Who wins is immaterial to the millions of people who will suffer as a result.

    Scenario 3: polling places are reinforced with police and National Guards as necessary to prevent any election interference. They can be present to "observe" but they're not allowed to intimidate anyone. This is the only scenario I can see where democracy is defended and preserved.

    Agree or disagree? What am I missing? Where am I wrong?

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    [–] 33 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I think he thinks he'll lose, and he thinks a big loss is actually less believable to his supporters than a close loss, so he's trying to create a big loss, which will make more of his supporters Jan 6 2.0.

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