At a small rally in rural Wisconsin, The Donald appears to have lost both the plot and his audience with a blistering rant that bore little resemblance to truth, and left even MAGA adherent at sixes and sevens when he suddenly asserted “When I took office in 2017, military officers told him the U.S. had given all the military’s ammunition away to allies.” Then he went on a tirade against US allies, saying “ they’re only our allies when they need something and that they would never come to our aid if we needed them.”This echoes the talking points put out by Russian operatives. This statement flies in the face of the fact that the one time the North Atlantic Treaty Organization invoked the mutual defense clause was in response to September 11, 2001 attacks on the US.
As to policy, he embraced Project 2025’s promise to eliminate the Department of Education and send education back to the states so that right-wing figures like Wisconsin’s Senator Ron Johnson can run it. He reiterated the MAGA claim that mothers are executing their babies after birth—this is completely bonkers—and again echoed Russian talking points when he went on: “We did a great thing when we got Roe v. Wadeout of the federal government.”
These executions are rezlly happening, but nobody talks about it.”— Senator Ron Johnson
Trump reiterated the complete fantasy that schools are performing gender-affirming surgery on children. “Can you imagine you’re a parent and your son leaves the house and you say, Jimmy, I love you so much, go have a good day at school, and your son comes back with a brutal operation. Can you even imagine this? What the hell is wrong with our country?”Trump’s suggestion that schools are performing surgery on students is bananas. This is simply not a thing that happens.
And then he went full-blown apocalyptic, attacking immigrants and claiming that crime, which in reality has dropped dramatically since he left office after a spike during his own term, has made the U.S. uninhabitable. He said that “If I don’t win Colorado, it will be taken over by migrants and the governor will be sent fleeing.” “Migrants and crime are here in our country at levels never thought possible before…. You’re not safe even sitting here, to be honest with you. I’m the only one that’s going to get it done. Everybody is saying that.” He urged people to protest “because you’re being overrun by criminals.”
He assured attendees that “If you think you have a nice house, have a migrant enjoy your house, because a migrant will take it over. A migrant will take it over. It will be Venezuela on steroids.” He reiterated his plan to get rid of migrants. “And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story.”
He went on to try to rev up supporters in words very similar to those he used on January 6th, 2021, but focused on this election. “Every citizen who’s sick and tired of the parasitic political class in Washington that sucks our country of its blood and treasure, November fifth will be your liberation day. November fifth, this year, will be the most important day in the history of our country because we’re not going to have a country anymore if we don’t win.”
He promised: “I will prevent World War III, and I am the only one that can do it. I will prevent World War III. And if I don’t win this election,… Israel is doomed…. Israel will be gone…. I’d better win!”
“I better win or you’re gonna have problems like we’ve never had. We may have no country left. This may be our last election. You want to know the truth? People have said that. This may be our last election…. It’ll all be over, and you gotta remember…. Trump is always right. I hate to be right. I’m always right.”
Trump’s hellscape is only in his mind: crime is sharply down in the U.S. since he left office, migrant crossings have plunged, and the economy is the strongest in the world.
Trump posted on his social media site a rant asserting that “I will win the 2024 election but that expect Democrats to cheat, and “when I win, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again. We cannot let our Country further devolve into a Third World Nation, and we WON’T! Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels, unfortunately, never seen before in our Country.”
Is it the Justice Department indictments that showed Russia is working to get him re-re-elected? Is it the rising popularity of Democratic nominees Kamala Harris and Tim Walz? Is it fury at the new grand jury’s indicting him for his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election and install himself in power? Is it fear of Tuesday’s debate with Harris? Is it a declining ability to grapple with reality?
One of the two parties that dominate the largest economy think this man would make a good President and “Leader of the Free World”.
Like the rational half of the Amrtican population: Be afraid; be very afraid!
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