Trump was in Michigan recently for a campaign rally, where he insulted his usual enemies, which include Governor Gretchen Whitmer. His attacks on her inspired chants of “lock her up.” Trump’s encouragement of violence are fascistic, not what the public expects from the president.
Governor Whitmer responded this morning on a Sunday talk show.
MICHIGAN GOV. GRETCHEN WHITMER spoke with CHUCK TODD on NBC’S “MEET THE PRESS” about being targeted by TRUMP: “You know it’s — it’s incredibly disturbing that the president of the United States, 10 days after a plot to kidnap, put me on trial and execute me — 10 days after that was uncovered, the president is at it again and inspiring and incentivizing and inciting this kind of domestic terrorism. It is wrong. It’s got to end.
“It is dangerous, not just for me and my family, but for public servants everywhere who are doing their jobs and trying to protect their fellow Americans. People of goodwill on both sides of the aisle need to step up and call this out and bring the heat down. This is the United States of America. We do not tolerate actions like he is giving comfort to, and that’s why we all have to be in this together.
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The DUMP is desperate. Gawd … he’s disgusting.
I say, “LOCK UP that DUMP.”
There is NOTHING redeemable re: the DUMP.
He needs to GO AWAY for good, preferably in a JAIL CELL wearing stripes.
LIBERATE THE STATES…but don’t ever say that Trump is responsible for the increasing numbers of COVID-19 positive cases. [Trump supporters don’t get the connection.]
Trump is personally responsible for doing nothing to flatten the curve. I think now that he’s ‘over it’ [If that is true, and I question that.] then his niece was correct in saying that he no longer would care about it.
Miller on whether Trump regrets ‘Lock her up’ chant about Whitmer: ‘Not at all’
BY ZACK BUDRYK – 10/18/20 10:26 AM EDT
Senior Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller said the president stood by attacking Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) in the wake of an alleged plot by a militia group to kidnap her.
Asked on “Fox News Sunday” if the president regretted either his own attacks or a chant of “Lock her up” that broke out at a Saturday rally, Miller responded, “No, not at all.”
“I think the fact of the matter is many residents of Michigan are pretty frustrated with the governor [and] they want to see the state open back up,” Miller said.
“I’m glad that President Trump’s DOJ was able to get these psychopaths and put them away,” Miller said of the alleged plotters, “but the fact of the matter is, people in Michigan want to get their state opened back up.”…
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/521583-miller-on-whether-trump-regrets-lock-her-up-chant-about-whitmer
Jason Miller’s views are deplorable.
Fascist.
Trump is a criminal. He is guilty of domestic terrorism. If you include his COVID-19 lies, he is guilty of negligent homicide.
He will pardon himself and his enablers.
Whitmer did something that Trump didn’t like and I have read more than once that he was barring in interviews long before he ran for president that he always gets even with anyone that doesn’t do what he wants.
Mother Jones ran a piece on the subject: “Donald Trump Is Completely Obsessed With Revenge”
“Revenge–it’s a big part of Trump’s life.”
“In speeches and public talks, Trump has repeatedly expressed his fondness for retribution. In 2011, he addressed the National Achievers Congress in Sydney, Australia, to explain how he had achieved his success. He noted there were a couple of lessons not taught in business school that successful people must know. At the top of the list was this piece of advice: “Get even with people. If they screw you, screw them back 10 times as hard. I really believe it.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/donald-trump-obsessed-with-revenge/
If Trump loses the election, he will spend the rest of his functional live trying to get revenge on them because they beat him.
From what I have read about Trump and his obsession with getting revenge if he asked another billionaire for a loan and the other billionaire says no, he will wait the rest of his life for an opportunity to get revenge on that other billionaire.
Through their websites’ contact forms, I was successful in messaging US Senator Mike Braun and Congressperson Steve Chabot. 🙂
Eddie: I sent a message to Senator Braun [R-IN] but I had to put it into the only site that came up…requesting tours and having to give the dates I’d be in D.C.
I have signed petitions to Senator Todd Young [R-IN] and those petitions have Senator Braun’s name. Young’s name asks for information. Braun’s name is listed but never asks for any information. He is very difficult to reach.
As I posted earlier, Braun apparently doesn’t want to get comments from the ‘little people’. A number of months ago, I was able to access his site and did write comments. What happened?
carolmalaysia, I visited braun.senate.gov, clicked Contact Me and scrolled down to his form.
🙂
Thank you. This one works.
You’re welcome. 😁
Lines Written on the Fly
…in a Pensive mood…
First, Joe outwrestled the big orange
Palooka, who couldn’t get his
mouth under control, let alone
the flight pattern of his words,
flailing as they were against the
winds of reality .
Then the old song, “Straighten Up and Fly Right,”
came to mind, as Kamala swatted Trump-Pence
hopes for four more years, landing blow after
verbal blow, though some of it flew over his head,
‘til his last friend had flown, as well.
Meanwhile, in Michigan, wily Whitmer whittled
would-be wacko warriors down to size with an FBI raid
that landed the kidnapper wannabe’s in jail,
where they’ll have years to wear more than hated masks—
Orange jump suits will help them remember Big Orange
and his encouragements: “Liberate Michigan!” They’d
settle for shorter terms toward their own liberation.
The Trump administration will be remembered as the time when “piece of _____” was used so often that POS became a thing.
You don’t have to worry about the orange clown makeup and the orange jump suit being too matchy, matchy because once he’s in prison, Jabba the Trump, the man with no plan, will not have access to his tan in a can.
Trump is a serial predator.
Think of that. It’s truly an astonishing fact. The president of the United States is a serial predator.
In case you missed it, Bob, a poignant reminder of when presidents acted like presidents:
For those of you who revere Pete Seeger, run, don’t walk, to get the Kronos Quartet’s tribute to him, his music and his influence, Long Time Coming. Their interpretations of Turn, Turn, Turn and especially We Shall Overcome may have you reaching for a tissue or two.
Thanks, Greg, for the recommendations!
Trump is definitely in the running for most loathsome person ever to be president. He’s up there with Nixon and his hero Andrew Jackson. NB; no comma after hero to signal the appositive because it’s not an exclusive appositive. Trump has other heroes: Putin, Duterte–other autocrats.
For much of his presidency, despite the enormous damage he has done, Jabba the Trump has been frustrated. Why? Well, remember when he said that “who knew that healthcare was so complicated?” Trump is a PROFOUNDLY ignorant man, like the drunken uncle who gets plastered at the family get-together and starts spouting about making English the official language of the United States. He had the bizarre notion that a president could do anything he liked. He was totally ignorant of our system of checks and balances, of limitations on a monopoly on violence of any particular part of the nation state. And he’s a very slow learner. Despite all his failures (these occur almost daily–just yesterday a federal judge blocked his administration’s attempt to cut off food stamps for 700,000 Americans in the middle of a pandemic and unemployment crisis), Trump hasn’t learned that his power isn’t absolute. Not a bright guy, this one. Is he the most ignorant and dumbest person ever to occupy the Oval Office? Doubtless.
Nixon was far superior to Trump, despite all Nixon’s flaws. He was intelligent. He opened relations with China, which no Democrat dared to do. He established the Environmental Protection Agency (which Trump has tried to destroy). He believed in building good relationships with our European allies, which is today in dire trouble. He was first to authorize affirmative action.
I am not sure which president was “worse” than Trump. Maybe Andrew Johnson.
Completely agree with you, Diane!
But a mixed bag. He also gave us Chile, the breathtakingly costly and racist War on Drugs, and escalation and prolongation of the Vietnam War.
Yes, a mixed bag to be sure. He resigned to avoid being impeached because of Watergate. He was paranoid and he kept an enemies’ list. He used racism implicitly with his Southern strategy and his appeal to the “silent majority.”
Many bad things that Nixon did. But he wasn’t stupid and ignorant like Trump.
Emphatically agreed. He was a fascinating figure!
But certainly his trip to China was HUGE. We need a lot more of that–the US engaging in positive diplomacy.
Historically, James Buchanan us generally considered the worst President, as he sat by and watched states secede from the Union and did nothing about it–leaving it to Lincoln to try to clean up the mess. Buchanan is often “credited” with helping start the Civil War. Of course, he wasn’t totally to blame– as we all know, slavery was festering in the US long before Buchanan, but he did not do one thing to stop the US from splintering apart.
I will always consider Reagan the worst President. XLV is little more than the latest clod on the road to perdition Reagan sent us down, the road to this Gross Oligarchic Plutocracy from which our onetime democracy may never recover. Of course, Reagan was not the true author, director, producer of all that — he was merely the hired pitchman, the “Talent” whose only talent was keeping the label on the can to the camera.
This just came in. Jeremy Scahill, a co-founder of the Intercept, said in an interview with Democracy Now!, that “Trump has empowered white supremacist vigilantes and given permission to law enforcement to act extrajudicially to enforce a racist status quo.”
Scahill also urged us not to over-exaggerate the abnormality of sitting president too much by saying “Trump is “not an aberration of U.S. history or some anomaly, but he’s a very overt representation of many of the absolute most violent, destructive, racist, xenophobic trends in U.S. history.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/10/19/jeremy_scahill_trump_white_supremacy