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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.”

Dufurson ,
@Dufurson@sh.itjust.works avatar

-you won’t have to vote ME anymore- FTFY, orange felon

TheObviousSolution ,
@TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee avatar

It’s not cryptic at all, it’s rather straightforward.

BCat70 ,

Yeah came here to say this.

Centaur ,

This thing with Christians reminds me on Steve’s ‘Developers, developers, developers’. Did Steve write speech for Donald 🤔 IT folks will understand 😁

grrgyle ,

Wow so cryptic I wonder what he could be implying

JimVanDeventer ,

He’s a riddle wrapped in an enigma…

T00l_shed ,

Wrapped in a used diaper

yemmly ,

And then deep fried to a golden…orange.

PulpDood ,

“I think I’m much more cryptic than you would understand” - Trump

vga ,

Again with the dog airhorn.

I_Clean_Here ,

What does it feel like to get raped in the ass by this fucker, Americans? You gonna do something about it or just take it?

CptEnder ,

The electoral college has been doing that for so many years our assholes look like Bonnie Rotten after a gang bang.

rottingleaf ,

Thx for the recommendation

TheReturnOfPEB ,

We should not let these ivory tower pie in the sky professors vote for us!

Skullgrid ,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

they tried to do something about it, and that was wrong.

TheObviousSolution , (edited )
@TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee avatar

Ancient Greece also fell, cults and ideologies outperformed their bickering through sheer dumb single-mindedness.

Snowflake ,

Ancient Greece fell because of lead. It’s believed the aristocrats were ingesting 1mg of lead everyday. They used it for various things including wine preservative and sweetener.

Nuke_the_whales ,

That one kid tried to do something about it, then everyone decried him.

naught101 ,

Except Kyle Gass

anus ,

Is there another source or a recording of the full speech

PersnickityPenguin ,

27 seconds: commondreams.org/…/it-ll-be-fixed-trump-tells-sup…

This is trump, he does word salad. Do you think there is context with his speeches?.

I_Clean_Here ,

Nothing cryptic about it

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

So he’s basically killing democracy in his country if he wins the election.

I mean, once he wins, because I’m very pessimistic.

vga ,

I think the silver lining is that he might be too incompetent to actually pull it off, like last time he obviously tried it. Unfortunately, the US judicial or whatever system is also too incompetent to punish him so I guess he just gets to try it again and again until it works.

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

So if it doesn’t happen soon, it’s gonna happen eventually.

TheObviousSolution ,
@TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee avatar

If it’s not him, it will be some other clown. The GQP got to the position it is in even when it wasn’t brainwashing personality cult members and it wast that bad, now it is and all it takes is a non-ideal candidate on the democratic side to let them win. Democracy in the US can no longer be retained through the popular vote.

The fifth column of generational oligarchs is just trying to find its next figurehead Hitler to take leadership and if it fails, to take the fall while they sink back into obscurity to prepare for the next round.

nimomycelium ,
@nimomycelium@lemmy.world avatar

Democracy is an overrated concept - truth cannot be achieved through consensus but by the will and conviction of one.

pyre ,

imagine openly saying this shit. lol. your comment history is a trash fire so it isn’t surprising.

rottingleaf ,

Akshally, I agree that democracy with votes is flawed at best.

Consensus is not it, but it’s also bad in the situations where you have to make some decision. It favors sabotage.

Democracy through sortition and (ranked) vote combined is my favorite concept, with a lot of things being left to voluntary contracts with exterritorial jurisdictions, like a few states inside one in the same territory, where you can choose between a jurisdiction of ancoms, a jurisdiction of Christians, a jurisdiction of crackheads and so on.

Hackworth ,

A.I. take the wheel.

rottingleaf ,

Hell no, G-d no.

Hackworth ,

I honestly think they’ll do better than we have. They don’t have the evolutionary baggage.

nimomycelium ,
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Thank you for your most excellent contribution.

pyre ,

no, don’t oversell it; it was a normal contribution… it just looks most excellent when juxtaposed with your inane ramblings.

nimomycelium , (edited )
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Hardly but if it makes you happy.

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    pyre ,

    please let me know if you have trouble with anything specific that you find shitty. I’m obviously very interested in what you think.

    I_Clean_Here ,

    You are a dumbass, my man. Psychotic

    fine_sandy_bottom ,

    Gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you wouldn’t find a progressive supreme leader satisfactory?

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    butwhyishischinabook ,

    Hey what was being burned in that famous photo of Nazis burning books again?

    nimomycelium ,
    @nimomycelium@lemmy.world avatar

    The manual to Windows Me?

    SketchySeaBeast ,
    @SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca avatar

    Truth, Trump, pick one. Dude sharpies hurricanes. Also a weird goal for government. Would our leaders telling the truth be a good thing? Oh yeah, but “truth” won’t help the hungry.

    nimomycelium ,
    @nimomycelium@lemmy.world avatar

    Trump is a douchbag…

    rayyy ,

    In case you missed it the OLD orange felon/rapist has already declared himself the winner. He has said if he isn’t the winner the election was rigged. They intend to take control no matter what.

    pulaskiwasright ,

    If he loses, how many states would have to just flip their electoral votes? The supreme court would 100% approve it.

    rottingleaf ,

    He’s done this before and all that happened was a small crowd of idiots making mess in the Capitol.

    _stranger_ ,

    I guarantee that THIS time there will be far more than a handful of cops on scene, regardless of who wins.

    Joelk111 ,

    I’m barely into politics, my high school teachings of the political system aren’t terribly strong in my mind. All that to ask:

    1. Can he do that?

    And, if so:

    1. What would need to happen for a president to convert our system to lifetime terms?
    2. What would need to happen for a president to convert our system to a dictatorship/monarchy/whatever? (so we actually never voted again)
    3. Is it at all likely that Trump could make either of those things happen?

    P.S. You don’t need to make the 86th comment about how this isn’t cryptic. Shitty headlines should be criticized, but it isn’t adding to the discussion at the point. I mean, look at me, I managed to get through this entire comment and not menti- Oh crap, I’m part of the problem.

    HK65 ,

    Not an expert on the US political system, but legislative power, and thus changing the system, is vested in Congress, not the Presidency. So he’d need to get a supermajority there, and rewrite the Constitution. Point is, it’s not Trump that can do it, but a theoretical Republican House and Senate 60% supermajority (or a supermajority of State legislatures).

    Look at what happened in Hungary in 2010, that’s a blueprint of that happening. Biden dropping out is good news, since from the outside it kinda looked like the US might have been setting itself up for that kind of thing to happen. I think with Harris running, it’s not realistic the Dems will lose that bad.

    That said, he could try another Jan 6th, basically take Washington under military occupation. Then it’s up to which states go along with it and which ones don’t, and you’ve got a civil war.

    PersnickityPenguin ,

    All he really needs is the supreme court to step in at any point there is a close contest to decide on the outcome. Also, there are only about 1,500 electors. Voting is kind of a sham.

    HK65 ,

    The question was how can Trump stay president after theoretically winning now and reaching his term limits.

    I wondee how the SC would argue that one out.

    jhymesba ,

    Go back and watch Star Wars Episode 3. That’s actually a good description of how a democracy falls to autocracy. The Republicans have been openly dreaming of a “Permanant Republican Majority” since AT LEAST Bush 43’s terms in office. And they’ve been laying the framework since Nixon – a newsentertainment channel that caters to Right-Winger fantasies, judges who put ideology over legality, partisan gerrymandering that concentrates Republican voters for power and dilutes Dem votes into meaninglessness, and political theories that basically advocate for the dismantling of our political systems if that will keep Democrats out of power even if they have a majority.

    To answer your questions directly:

    **Can he do that?**Yes. He can. Anyone can.

    **What would need to happen to convert our system to lifetime terms?**There are a variety of ways, but they all boil down to the President doing outright illegal things under cover of a friendly Supreme Court. After all, they granted immunity to ‘official acts’, which we believe is cover for an autocratic takeover of the country.

    **What would need to happen to convert our system into a dictatorship/monarchy/whatevs?**This is just a hypothetical situation. It’s July 2028. Mass incarcerations of Leftists, Immigrants, Muslims, and Minorities have begun and the country is in the throes of a civil war. Polling is reporting that Trump could lose the election, despite disenfranchising the Left’s voting base through various means. Trump announces he’s postponing the 2028 elections 'until things calm down, they have to get much better first before we can have a fair election." People sue. It doesn’t matter what happens in the lower courts, because they’ll appeal all the way up to the Supreme Court. The same 6 Conservative ideologues that said he has immunity for ‘official acts’ will rule that he has the right to suspend the election. And that, my friends, is how Democracy ends, with massive applause from the Alt-Right assholes that Clinton quite rightly fucking called “Deplorable”.

    **Can Trump actually make either of those happen?**Yes. Yes, he can. The framework is already laid out. HK-65 laid it out elsewhere. Essentially, you start by shutting the Other Side out of government. You then take over all the levers of government. Then you set them so you can’t lose. You might need to just waive away the safetyguards that get in your way, and some you might use your lock on government to remove ‘legitimately’. If the 22nd Amendment gets in the way of a Republican dynasty, they’ll have it removed.

    TL;DR? Never rely on checks and balances to stop authoritarianism. In the end, the Constitution IS just a piece of paper, and will be run over by authoritarian jerks if that means power.

    Facebones ,

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    Zink ,

    The government is run by people, so he just needs a critical mass of followers in important positions in order to gum things up. That’s why the #1 and perhaps only thing he cares about in other people are how much they like him and how loyal they are. Also to him.

    PersnickityPenguin ,

    Its rhetoric for sure, but there are possible methods to suspend elections. We don’t know what they are yet until a group starts publicly speculating about how it could legally be done. Not that it is impossible, who knows what the future may hold?

    I would say its pretty doubtful you could indefinitely suspend federal elections, but cheetoh benito loves to dog whistle to his base.

    ArugulaZ ,

    Cryptic, nothing. What he means is that we won’t be allowed to vote. This is precisely what happens when you tolerate tyranny for as long as we’ve tolerated Trump’s brand of it. We used to fight tyranny whenever it raised its head, but corporate media and its demands for “civility” has turned us into a nation of neuters.

    etuomaala ,

    As if it matters what Trump of all people says.

    Leate_Wonceslace ,
    @Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    You don’t understand how leadership works, do you?

    A leader’s power comes from those who follow. Trump’s followers are dangerous lunatics who believe they are willing to commit acts of violence. They care what he says and there’s enough that we should care too, insofar as it tells us what to expect.

    etuomaala ,

    You don’t understand how leadership works, do you?

    Look, I’ll talk with you, but not if this is how you treat me.

    VantaBrandon ,

    Cryptic implies there is something to decipher

    Chekhovs_Gun ,

    “Be sure to drink your ovaltine”

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