Donald Trump is unhinged. He is running in desperation to stay out of prison. His desperation leads him to be insulting and vulgar towards anyone who stands in his way.
The New York Times reported on his latest speech, in Ohio:
Former President Donald J. Trump, at an event on Saturday ostensibly meant to boost his preferred candidate in Ohio’s Republican Senate primary race, gave a freewheeling speech in which he used dehumanizing language to describe immigrants, maintained a steady stream of insults and vulgarities and predicted that the United States would never have another election if he did not win in November.
With his general-election matchup against President Biden in clear view, Mr. Trump once more doubled down on the doomsday vision of the country that has animated his third presidential campaign and energized his base during the Republican primary.
The dark view resurfaced throughout his speech. While discussing the U.S. economy and its auto industry, Mr. Trump promised to place tariffs on cars manufactured abroad if he won in November. He added: “Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a blood bath for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a blood bath for the country.”
For nearly 90 minutes outside the Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio, Mr. Trump delivered a discursive speech, replete with attacks and caustic rhetoric. He noted several times that he was having difficulty reading the teleprompter.
The former president opened his speech by praising the people serving sentences in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Mr. Trump, who faces criminal charges tied to his efforts to overturn his election loss, called them “hostages” and “unbelievable patriots,” commended their spirit and vowed to help them if elected in November. He also repeated his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, which have been discredited by a mountain of evidence.
If he did not win this year’s presidential election, Mr. Trump said, “I don’t think you’re going to have another election, or certainly not an election that’s meaningful.”
Mr. Trump also stoked fears about the influx of migrants coming into the United States at the southern border. As he did during his successful campaign in 2016, Mr. Trump used incendiary and dehumanizing language to cast many migrants as threats to American citizens.
He asserted, without evidence, that other countries were emptying their prisons of “young people” and sending them across the border. “I don’t know if you call them ‘people,’ in some cases,” he said. “They’re not people, in my opinion.” He later referred to them as “animals.”

It’s a cliche, now, that toward the end of an empire, the leaders are all batshit insane.
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So, this election will decide whether we are there yet.
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Every media news station should be leading with this story, but this is the only place I have heard this.
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Great written article with nothing but facts about the convicted rapist, the convicted felon, have 91 counts of felony charges for having taken secret documents from the White House Trump .
Trump is now trying to intimidate the American people against all values and patriotism of the United States and what the presidency stands for. The Democracy for all people who stepped their feet on the soil of America no matter your ethnicity or cultural background.
The American People believe in the values of the Presidency the Democracy. For all in America !!!
Trumps language and his actions are totally against the American people and what our Constitution and Declaration of Independence stand for.
Trump and his followers do not perpetuate the American dream for all who stepped their feet on the soil of America !!!
The American people will rise and stand up against his hypocrisy, because We fear no one but our Higher Powers “God/ Allah / Yahweh/ Jehovah !!!
Trump can not form words or any weapon that would stand up to the scrutiny of our “FAITH” and the American BELIEF in democracy and the belief in the American democracy.
The America People believe in a peaceful election in all States and a peaceful defeat of Trump in the election.
America will have a free and orderly vote for the presidency of the United States without any incident. WHY ???
We the people and the Patriots of America and the American dream and the American flag and the freedoms for all who stepped their feet on the sole of America will not let the words and actions of a small minority of people destroy the Democracy of America.
Thank you from
A veteran captain of the United States Army who believe in the Democracy of America.
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As usual, IQ45’s campaign antics are a plus for the good guys. More of that please, DJT!
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Ginny,
Trump can’t help himself. He says gross, vulgar, insulting things whenever he goes off the teleprompter. That’s who he is.
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From what I read, Trump said “financial bloodbath “. Dropping a word makes a different statement.
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Trump has financial bloodbaths on his tiny, diseased mind these days.
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Yes, Bob, Trump is having a financial bloodbath if he doesn’t come up with a $400 million bond in a few days.
But in the New York Times article, he did not say “financial bloodbath.”
He said:
The dark view resurfaced throughout his speech. While discussing the U.S. economy and its auto industry, Mr. Trump promised to place tariffs on cars manufactured abroad if he won in November. He added: “Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a blood bath for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a blood bath for the country.”
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Thanks, Diane!
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This is the quote in the story:
“The dark view resurfaced throughout his speech. While discussing the U.S. economy and its auto industry, Mr. Trump promised to place tariffs on cars manufactured abroad if he won in November. He added: “Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a blood bath for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a blood bath for the country.”
Nothing there about a “financial bloodbath.”
Trump predicted in 2020 that if Biden won, the stock market would collapse. Last week, the stock market exceeded record highs.
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He was talking about the auto industry, not political violence.
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FLERP, Trump often talks about political violence. How can high tariffs on foreign cars be considered a bloodbath?
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High tariffs on foreign cars are the solution, according to Trump, not the bloodbath. The bloodbath is what will happen if some weak leader like Biden doesn’t impose the tariffs, in which case the auto industry and even the whole country will go down the tubes. (Love that expression, what and where are the tubes?). It will be so bad it will be a “bloodbath.”
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I come from a time, the time traveler said, when all it took to knock a presidential contender out of the race was an off-hand quip like this —
https://michiganadvance.com/briefs/on-this-day-in-1967-gov-george-romney-says-he-was-brainwashed-on-vietnam-war/
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Yes, and Senator Gary Hart dropped out of the presidential race because the press got a photo of him on a boat with a woman not his wife. Contrast with Trump’s shameless licentiousness.
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Very interesting!
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Trump “predicted that the United States would never have another election if he did not win in November.“
Since Traitor Trump’s lies like this one often reflect what he’s planning to do, or already doing, by falsely accusing others of the exact same thing, the traitor has verified what will happen if he wins in November.
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Very Interesting, and yes, “context matters “.
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If he loses he will want a bloodbath social or literal. And there are far too many folk willing him on. Wretched creature that he is, I can practically see his strings being pulled by the MAGA mob.
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I have to say that when I saw the “bloodbath” headlines, I assumed Trump was making reference to potential political violence. But I watched the clip this morning and he was talking about the financial problems that would befall the auto industry.
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FLERP, given how many of his followers carry guns, given his incitement of physical violence on Jan 6, given his love for those Jan 6 insurrectionists, I take any reference by him to a “bloodbath” literally.
And those who are judges, prosecutors, or witnesses against him are bombarded with death threats.
If a mafia don warns that there will be a bloodbath, he means it.
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I take your point and history has already taught us what his supporters can do. I just think it was pretty clear here that he wasn’t talking about political violence. As clear as anything can be when it comes to figuring out what Trump is trying to say, at least. He was basically saying, China is playing hardball, and if I’m elected I will play hardball with them by imposing 100% tariffs, but if I don’t get elected, the auto industry, in fact the whole country, is going to get crushed by China.
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He also predicted a collapse of the stock market in 2020 if Biden won.
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“It’ll be like nothing you’ve ever seen.”
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From the Washington Post:
“Later in the rally, Trump warned it will be a “bloodbath for the country” if he is not elected. The comment came as he was promising to hike tariffs on foreign-made cars, and it was not clear exactly what Trump was referring to with his admonition. “Now we’re going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across [the] line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys — if I get elected,” he said. “Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole. That’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”
He talks like a mafia don.
A bloodbath for the country if he is not re-elected.
I’m hoping that E. Jean Carroll sues him a third time as he continues to defame her at rallies.
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From the Tax Foundation:
Economists Pablo Fajgelbaum, Pinelopi Goldberg, Patrick Kennedy, and Amit Khandelwal examined the tariffs on washing machines, solar panels, aluminum, steel, and goods from the European Union and China imposed in 2018 and 2019. They found that U.S. firms and final consumers bore the entire burden of tariffs and estimated a net loss to the U.S. economy of $16 billion annually.
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Hating inflation yet advocating for 100% tariffs in a net importer country is a heck of a mindset.
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Trump is very stupid. He thinks that tariffs are paid by the other country. They are paid by consumers.
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He may or may not be that stupid … but he knows his supporters are.
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Absolutely key:
he’s encouraging them to believe that conditions are so bad or will become so bad, and that the political opposition is so awful, that anything is justified—including law-breaking and violence—to prevent those conditions and to destroy the opposition.
And, again, textbook fascism.
jct2
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I signed this petition.
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Donald Trump is facing dozens of charges, and a long stretch in prison. It’s believed the main reason he’s running for president is to pardon himself if he gets elected. And if he starts falling in the polls, and sees his chances slipping away, fleeing the country may be his best option.
He should be wearing an ankle monitor, should be tracked 24/7, and put in prison if he tries to flee.
Trump has a host of despots and autocrats ready to give him asylum, most notably Putin in Russia. And a Trump overseas, and out of the range of US authorities would be far, far more dangerous than he already is.
Trump is a criminal, and it’s time to start treating him accordingly.
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Road Trip
Posted on December 12, 2023 by Bob Shepherd
To the Tune of “Normandy,” from the musical Once Upon a Mattress
[Dialogue to cue song:]
RUDE-OAF THE BROWN-NOSED REIGN DEAR: Wow. 148 million I’ve lost this racist harassment of election workers thing big league. And I’m gonna lose the voting machine thing. Same for the, you know, the sexual harassment thing. I had to sell my apartment in the city. Soon, I’ll be living on the street. You gotta help me, Donald!
DON THE CON: Don’t worry, Rudy old pal. You know that the Queen Bee wouldn’t leave her best lady in waiting in distress and not come to the rescue.
RUDE-OAF: But, actually, Don, you would, you know.
DON THE CON: True (beat), but just hold on. Listen for a minute. I have an idea.
DON (sings while doing his weird little waddle dance with his fists up):
Sochi in Russia is fine and fair.
So Sochi in Russia’s where we’ll go.
I can show you a beach
Where the models all go.
And I know how to reach
A man who knows a man who knows
RUDE: Tsar Vladimir the Short?
DON: You betcha.
DON (continues singing):
An overbuilt dacha,
A real showy place
With hookers and fixtures made of gold.
This time of year, the grift I hear
Is easy, clear, and free
In old Sochi!
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It doesn’t take a computer scientist
to read code that kind of code …
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Exactly
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