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dawg day

(7,947 posts)
Mon Jun 22, 2020, 07:34 AM Jun 2020

Slate has a good summary of Trump's hate speech Saturday night


Other accounts focused just on the "testing," but this article goes into all the ways he urged his listeners to hate and attack.




Trump went beyond hatred, appealing explicitly to violence. He dismissed immigrants with criminal records as “animals” and praised Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who “start swinging” at them. He extended this argument to Americans involved in the Floyd protests. Journalists “call them protesters,” he sneered, but they were really “thugs.” He encouraged his followers to take matters into their own hands. “When you see those lunatics all over the streets, it’s damn nice to have [fire]arms,” he declared. “Damn nice.”


https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/trump-tulsa-rally-campaign-enemies-fear.html
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Slate has a good summary of Trump's hate speech Saturday night (Original Post) dawg day Jun 2020 OP
I don't think most republicans are as stupid or violent as he thinks soothsayer Jun 2020 #1
He is trying his best to set the stage for a civil war. lark Jun 2020 #2

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
1. I don't think most republicans are as stupid or violent as he thinks
Mon Jun 22, 2020, 07:42 AM
Jun 2020

He’s appealing to the tiniest, fringiest, cringiest part of his base.

He’s got to be turning off normal people.

lark

(23,138 posts)
2. He is trying his best to set the stage for a civil war.
Mon Jun 22, 2020, 01:28 PM
Jun 2020

He has tried getting people to use "2nd amendment solutions" many times, including during B:M marches near the WH & notice that hardly any of his people bit. He tried again in Tulsa to gin up violence, but everyone went home and no one used guns on others as he'd so love to see. He's doing this mail in BS now and will continue until the election when he hopes to have the militias come out with guns and incite violence so he can declare a national emergency, martial law and stop the election. Hopefully, his folks will yawn and refuse, but he wants this badly and so do the Russian Repugs and will continue inciting the MAGATS every way he can.

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