Trump blows the MAGA whistle -- and his signal is heard loud and clear

[marmar]

Trump blows the MAGA whistle — and his signal is heard loud and clear
Trump is escalating his rhetoric. How far will he take it?

By LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV
Columnist
PUBLISHED MARCH 19, 2024 9:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) It may seem superfluous to say this, but it needs saying: He means it. Donald Trump meant it when he called his mob to Washington in December of 2020 by telling them, “Be there, will be wild!” and he means it right now when he tells the mobs at his rallies that the members of the January 6 Committee belong in jail, and if he is elected in November, he will have his Department of Justice “go after” President Biden and his family.

Donald Trump is dangerously escalating the rhetoric he is using to rile up his followers at his rallies. On Saturday in Dayton, Ohio, he saluted those convicted of violently attacking police officers and doing damage to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He called them “hostages” and “unbelievable patriots.” And he executed a military-style salute as a loudspeaker played a version of the National Anthem sung into a telephone in a federal prison by felons convicted of crimes at the Capitol.

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Donald Trump has no honor to bestow on anyone. He doesn’t know what honor is. His supporters understand this. They don’t support him because he is an honorable man, but because he isn’t. They get that his salute is not a sign of respect but one of defiance. His salute signifies his belief that the laws that his supporters broke are illegitimate. Trump doesn’t believe in those laws, so his supporters don’t, either. What Trump is saying with his salute to his supporters is that he, and they, stand apart from the laws of this nation. They are a law unto themselves. When he promises that he will pardon the “hostages,” as he calls them, he is saying that they did not break the law because they were following his orders.

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He is turning them loose, and they know it. They come to his rallies so they can hear it directly from Trump himself and then go home and get ready to take his next set of orders as they did before Jan. 6, when he told them it was okay to “be wild” at the Capitol. If you can be wild at the Capitol and attack police officers with weapons like batons and flag poles and bear spray, you can be wild anywhere, and you can do anything. ...............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/19/blows-the-maga-whistle--and-his-signal-is-heard-loud-and-clear/

[marble falls]

1. And his heavy infantry has heeded this last call ...

[cayugafalls]

7. Can anyone spot the 2 cases of beer they snuck into the park?

Hint: It is not in their boots.

[marble falls]

21. It's under their t-shirts. They drank it to get their courage up. Trick question, man!

[LaMouffette]

2. I don't think as many MAGAs will heed his call this time around, after having seen what happened to their fellow

insurrectionists. But I fear that a few of his nut-job supporters will take it upon themselves to carry out Mango Mussonlini's call to arms against individual Democratic leaders and their families. I hope they're provided with the best possible security.

[PatSeg]

5. Yes and those few "nut-job supporters"

are often the ones that end up committing mass shootings. I agree that many of his MAGA supporters may go to his rallies and vote for him, but aren't going to put themselves in legal jeopardy for his sorry ass.

[Ligyron]

10. Trump will lose the election bigly.

Then, as last time, he'll claim it's "rigged" unless he's in jail.

But it only takes one deranged enough MAGA with an automatic and multiple mags and ammo or a clever enough one with a working knowledge of explosives.

Hope the Secret Service (even that name give one pause) is really on the ball and loves democracy more than MAGA.

[PatSeg]

20. I am 99.9% sure that yes

Trump will lose "bigly". A small part of me will never get over him winning in 2016 however, so my optimism is cautious as I know anything is possible.

Yep, we all know that Trump will claim the election was "rigged". Shoot, he said it was rigged even when he won. I'm sure that even if he was in jail, he would claim it was rigged and that the Deep State framed him and put him in jail. Meanwhile, more and more of his followers will tune him out. They have short attention spans and honestly they have heard it all before over and over again. There is bound to be another shiny object to get their attention and besides that, they always have reality TV to watch.

I agree that just one deranged supporter could cause an awful lot of damage. I'm sure the FBI and Secret Service will be on high alert for quite some time.

[PSPS]

3. Don't worry. Garland is on it! LOL

[Justice matters.]

16. While he keeps hiding the unredacted Mueller Report

From the taxpayers who paid for it.

[TeamProg]

4. The scary and sad thing is that your comment applies whether TSF wins or loses. nt

[h2ebits]

9. Please help with Acronym. . . .

What does TSF stand for? I understand TFG-The Former Guy but TSF is all over Democratic Underground and I have no idea what it stands for.

Thanks for your help.

[padfun]

11. The Sick F*ck

nt

[h2ebits]

17. Thanks!

[niyad]

12. The Sick Fu**, as President Biden referred to him in a conversation

recently.

[h2ebits]

18. Thanks!

[TeamProg]

14. The SICK Fuck !!

Ain't it the truth..

[h2ebits]

19. Thanks!

[Scrivener7]

6. Well... remember "stand back and stand by?" Look where that led. This is much more overt and violent.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. friend of mine over in europe was saying at the time the so called militias were ramping up after he said this.

hes a ham and the humpsters took over 28 megacycles and dont have ham licenses .

[Wednesdays]

15. 28 MHz is just above Citizens Band radio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_band_radio

Channel 19 is at 27.185 MHz. It'd be a piece of cake to tweak a CB radio into the 10-meter (28 MHz) band.

[AllaN01Bear]

22. si. also known as 10 meters .