Trump created quite the stir last week when he implored “Christians” to show up in droves just this one last time. Because he added if they did, if they propelled him back into the WH they wouldn’t have to bother in the future. Well, Trump has felt attention starved the past week and could barely get a word in but that speech and his comments did get him some attention. It just wasn’t the kind he wanted. He’s already been furiously trying to distance himself from Project 2025 and now this. Project 2025 is all about turning Trump into a King and ensuring his successor is another rabid even by RWNJ standards is too. So some of his minions including the ever faithful lapdog Lindsey Graham (or is he a Lamprey?) to the Sunday talk shows to walk it back.
This Huffington Post article recounts the mess and how Graham, fellow Senator Tom Cotton and New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu tried to brush off, or in Graham’s case ‘laugh off’ any notions Trump might be serious. Let’s start with what Trump actually said which is quoted in the article:
“Christians, get out and vote, just this time,” he said. “You won’t have to do it anymore.”
“You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again,” he added. “We’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”
Yikes. No wonder Team Trump wants this walked back. Let’s not forget how more than once Trump has said because he didn’t get to stay in office he’s ‘owed a third term.’ And of course how he fought tooth and nail leaving office when he got his butt whipped by the voters. He knew the plans. There’s no doubt in my mind about that. Those plans were a multi-faceted effort to overturn the will of the votes in multiple states. Court cases to throw out legitimately cast votes. Creating slates of bogus electors to substitute for the legitimate electoral vote certificates that would be counted on the Constitutionally prescribed date. And inciting a riot, a violent insurrection that stormed the Capitol when Trump realized his VP Mike Pence was unlikely to go along with the fake electors scheme.
Given all that I think it’s safe to assume that if Trump regains the Presidency he won’t leave it until he’s carried off in a body bag. I know it. You know it. MAGAs know it, EVERYONE knows it. Hell, Project 2025 is in part about making that goal of Trump’s a reality! So Graham trying to laugh it off, and his compatriots doing their own Sunday talk show interviews saying we shouldn’t take Trump seriously, that it was all kidding around? I don’t buy it. It’s more like the old thing about them up their taking a whiz on our heads, giving us a “golden shower” and trying to convince us it’s raining.
Lindsey Graham on CBS laughs off Trump's comments about his followers not having to vote again in four years if he's elected
(Republicans were asked about these Trump comments on 3 Sunday shows today — they weren't asked a single follow-up question in any of the interviews) pic.twitter.com/mI4RkGOVtM
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 28, 2024
There you have it. Trump saying what he said and Graham laughing, treating it like some joke. Yo Lindsay, JOKES aren’t jokes if they aren’t FUNNY and there’s nothing at all funny about this. When Trump or the others slip up and say the quiet part out loud we should take them seriously. Deadly seriously.
Still, I thought I’d swim around in what’s left of Graham’s mind for what he finds amusing. What I came up with is that to placate even some Evangelicals that are kind of nervous (it’s not like Trump and other GOP politicians haven’t betrayed them before) and maybe some ‘plausible’ nod has to be made to allies and history. So OF COURSE there will still be a chance to vote.
Here’s perhaps what Graham envisions. KING Trump personally approves all polling stations in the country in future elections. All will be Evangelical churches of course and thoroughly screened by a special Trump team of said Evangelical leaders. People won’t have to rely on the signs/banners over the entrance. Trump’s signature in gold letters on the stock of the assault rifles of those passing out ballots and manning (you don’t think they’ll let any women do so. Do you?) the ballot boxes will confirm it’s an officially Trump approved/sanctioned voting place.
No one will need to actually register to vote. They can cast their votes at any official Trump polling station they please. It will be easy. How easy you ask? The ballots will already be filled out for them! ‘Praying’ either before or after handing their ballot to the folks in MAGA hats to put in the box is optional. So is accepting the ‘I voted for GOD’S choices – Any Republican including and especially Trump although not doing so will find them having their photo ID copied for ‘monitoring.’
ANYONE can vote if they want to. After all, the ballots will have been filled out for them and don’t think for a second the dude collecting it checks to make sure a voter doesn’t try swapping it out with a ballot they filled out themselves. (That’s what the guys with assault rifles are there for. And the big truck out back – to haul away any bodies)
That I think is what’s behind Graham’s laughter. Imaging that type of future. The problem is, he’s far from being the only one with such fantasies. People with actual power and lots of it engage in similar daydreams although some of them have decided the time for daydreams is OVER. That it’s time to start turning them into reality. Hence the publishing of something we know as Project 2025. That they published it and spread it around is a measure of their arrogance. They (and Trump) have been stunned at the backlash so even worse things have been kept under wraps. Of that we can be sure.
If we don’t work like we’ve never worked before, and elect Kamala Harris and provide her with a Democratic House and Senate this country, often derisively called The Grand Experiment by not just England but other in Europe will become what they predicted over two hundred years ago – a grand experiment that failed just as they were sure it would. It will just have taken longer than they expected.
These people are serious, they really think we have too much freedom and we have to beat them good this time! We did it in 2020, could a stopped ’em then, but that weenie Merrick Garland dithered for three years before bringing charges. Chump should be in prison now but Garland wasted too much time, gave Chump all the delay he needed. I have a feeling Kamala ain’t gonna play that game, can’t wait to see her attorney general pick, someone with teeth who’ll jump all over Trump like a pit bull!
Like a pit bull hmm? And how would that be? Von shitzinpants would get licked within an inch of his life.
I’ve own Pitties for decades. They are truly exemplary canines and LOVE humans. I can’t help what assholes who need to be executed do to make dogs mean (and pitties aren’t the only ones) but a bully breed brought up like a normal pet is a normal dog who just loves people.
Please pick another analogy before your careless words cause trouble, more trouble, for some of the best dogs, bar none, in the world. And no, I will not argue this point. I know better than you about bully breeds.
I’m reminded that Petey in the Hal Roach Studios Little Rascals comedies was a pit bull…
This should be the BIG story of the campaign,
But it won’t be, like anything involved with Trump, it’ll be buried in the flood of stories about this, that, or anything else that stems from the chaos he cloaks himself in.
Even the ‘assassination attempt’ is now yesterday’s news, receding into a bad memory.