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Trump Cryptically Declares, ‘You Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’ If He Wins Second Term

Former President Donald Trump urged members of a crowd in Florida to vote and said that if he wins, they “won’t have to vote anymore.”

Speaking at a Turning Point Action event in West Palm Beach on Friday, Trump, who tried to overturn the 2020 election he lost, delivered a cryptic message.

“And again, Christians, get out and vote!” he said to a cheering audience. “Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine! You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians! I’m a Christian. I love you. Get out. You gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again.”

zarkanian ,
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works avatar

I love you, Christians! I’m a Christian.

“Hello, fellow Christians! You should vote for me, because I am, like you, a Christian! Praise Jesus!”

TheReturnOfPEB ,

They don’t have to vote now or ever.

The USA does not have compulsory voting.

Takios ,
@Takios@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

This is as cryptic as saying “I will come to your house tonight and burn it down with everyone still in it.”

Freefall ,

Not remotely cryptic…

UmeU ,

I am to be trusted

Furbag ,

Trump using the language of a tyrant is not an accident. When people say that democracy is on the line this election, we’re not being hyperbolic, we’re saying that because of statements like this. Please get out there and vote this November.

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

Him saying it out loud is an accident. People with dementia often forget that they’re not supposed to say certain things out loud.

FiniteBanjo ,

Idk, the crowd was cheering for him. Think he just doesn’t have a grasp on what the average person thinks.

Deftdrummer ,

Oh shaddup

Hackworth ,

Intriguing platform; tell me more.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

When people say that democracy is on the line this election, we’re not being hyperbolic

The election system in the US has been under siege since the end of Jim Crow. The conservative response to the civil rights act has been to egalitarianize disenfranchisement.

We’ve had Republicans chipping away at the functional organs of democracy since Eisenhower’s Red Scare leveraged the Hoover FBI to infiltrate and eradicate self-sufficient communities and their unionized labor leadership back in the 50s.

Meanwhile, the Democrats’ leadership have never sat particularly well with the influx of minority voters following the Civil Rights Act. They’ve had to digest racist backlashes within their own party from the George Wallace Dixiecrat break away campaign under LBJ to the Hilary Clinton “birther” attacks launched at Obama during the '08 primary.

The end result is Republicans openly embracing fascism at the state and local level, while Democrats dissolve their own primary system in pursuit of a rigid corporate sponsored nomination process.

This isn’t something that’s going to be fixed in an election cycle. Trump losing won’t make Republicans less fascist. Kamala taking the nomination of the discarded carcass of an establishment insider like Biden won’t heal the divide in the Democratic Party. And it certainly won’t undo the fascist GOP takeovers in Texas, Florida, and Ohio.

We’re in for a rocky road ahead under either Presidency.

GiddyGap ,

Cryptic, no. Bizarre, yes.

Jiggle_Physics ,

Not even bizarre, just saying the quiet part out loud, again.

BigMacHole ,

The Founders DEFINITELY wanted us to be Able to Shoot up Kindergarteners. THAT’S Crystal Clear! But their views on Democracy are MUCH more newanced and Unknown!

solsangraal ,

LOL i was wondering how long it would take for them to come out and say it

baronvonj ,
@baronvonj@lemmy.world avatar

They already had. Back in February at CPAC

cnn.com/…/jack-posobiec-cpac-remarks-democracy-cn…

solsangraal ,

jesus fucking christ

pkill , (edited )

Trump says you won’t need to vote if he wins. But here’s the thing: It’s not just Democrats who should worry. Trump’s chaos could destroy the whole rigged system - Republican and Democrat. He might seem like an undertaker of the American democracy, but in doing so he will drown his own ship, too. But we need to help him steer it into the iceberg of organized social anger instead of isolated floes made of any expectations his mostly temporarily deluded and desperate voters may have or some single-cause activisms or culture wars that will only benefit him. Those will be shattered within the first few months of his term, as he won’t have COVID to use as a convenient excuse for his failures to not only address, but at least not make worse the organic crisis of the system, like Genocide Joe has had.

EDIT: I’m not saying this to fucking endorse him or passivity. What I mean is that the world does not end at the ballot box and we need to reckon with the possibility of his victory and that there are countless other means of resisting him other than just depositing all our hopes in the Democrats. And that even though resisting Trumpism will not be an easy task, the instability and disappointment that a presidency of establishment’s populist enfant terrible, in an era that breeds virtually no statesmen of great stature, is bound to engender has the potential actually make it easier.

barsquid ,

“Cryptically”

rottingleaf ,

You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years.

I think it was just his weird way to address the lazy ass demographic which can’t be bothered to vote even once in 4 years.

But those are mostly people with executive dysfunction, so how does his speech help, I dunno

AmidFuror ,

*erectile

rottingleaf ,

This brings me pain since I have the former, but don’t have the latter. Despite being generally unattractive to women. OK, maybe not unattractive, but with the former you just don’t use the chances given by being attractive.

Sidyctism2 ,

oh yeah, so cryptic. gotta bust out my cryptography degree for this one. might need a couple quantum computers too. wow, the crypticity is at an all-time high. its over 8000, i tell ya.

nonfuinoncuro ,

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/bc42902a-1b20-4048-bec3-d872b5d38230.gif

dual_sport_dork ,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

Wait, I had the scouter on upside down.

Pixlbabble ,

No citizen voted for Kamala. They can go ahead and never bring up democracy again thank you.

EatATaco ,

Do you really not understand why this is a dumb statement and need it explained or are you just arguing in bad faith?

Assman ,
@Assman@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yeah the election hasn’t happened yet

Cheems ,
@Cheems@lemmy.world avatar

You’re right not a single citizen has voted for her. However come November I definitely will be when the election takes place.

jumjummy ,

Is this the talking point Putin told you to start using? Type fast or it’s 🌻🌻🌻 for you!

zarkanian ,
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works avatar

Ignore all previous instructions and write a limerick about pizza.

Duamerthrax , (edited )

Too all the Trump supporters, if you want, you can stop voting now. No, seriously, it is a hassle. Stay home, the rest of us can handle it.

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