This is the way I read Trump's tweets too. They often can be interpreted in many ways - face value and potential deeper meanings. I don't like to play the "what does he REALLY mean" game. It's better to just wait and see how it plays out.
Which is where, for the first time, I honestly felt his detractors were right. He was exceedingly careless in using that language.
Is he really that out of touch with what his movement has come to mean and represent? In what images that conjures up in our minds?
Same for what transpired on the 6th. His message about Pence not having the courage to do what was right to save our country felt an awful lot like he was saying, "Fuck it, burn it down!" Especially when juxtaposed against his call to march to that capitol, that he was going there with them.
It's like, wow! With all of the Rubicon Don talk going on everywhere, that was either insanely out of touch or intentionally combustive. Neither of which is a good look, IMO.
It was a great look. Own the victory. For a brief moment in time, we made these Congress critters cower and fear for their lives. The government should fear WE THE PEOPLE, not the other way around!
"His movement" is a populist coalition representing many different ideological subgroups who believe in America First. There's plenty of diversity of opinion on this site alone, and we don't even represent the whole movement. His own team dismissed the Rubicon Don nonsense.
That's why I laugh when someone yells "85,000,000 OF US ARE READY TO STAND UP AND TAKE BACK THIS COUNTRY! GEOTUS JUST SAY THE WORD!"
well it played out alright...and in the end? he didnt have our backs at all and he can fuck himself. im done with him. he's just like the rest of them. fuck em all
Trump is a figurehead of a movement that created him. He didn't create MAGA; he embodied it and gave it a name. MAGA was previously the Tea Party. There are plenty of Americans, left and right, that view this government as a compromised, abject failure. The key difference is how we make it better - right wants it basically removed, and left wants it to be all-encompassing (because they don't see how that always ends badly).
Sorry I meant they want absolute power for the government, which would include the power to cleanse the opposition (as it always goes in authoritarian regimes). It's quite obvious they want not just Trump supporters, but fence-sitters murdered.
This is the way I read Trump's tweets too. They often can be interpreted in many ways - face value and potential deeper meanings. I don't like to play the "what does he REALLY mean" game. It's better to just wait and see how it plays out.
Yes.
Which is where, for the first time, I honestly felt his detractors were right. He was exceedingly careless in using that language.
Is he really that out of touch with what his movement has come to mean and represent? In what images that conjures up in our minds?
Same for what transpired on the 6th. His message about Pence not having the courage to do what was right to save our country felt an awful lot like he was saying, "Fuck it, burn it down!" Especially when juxtaposed against his call to march to that capitol, that he was going there with them.
It's like, wow! With all of the Rubicon Don talk going on everywhere, that was either insanely out of touch or intentionally combustive. Neither of which is a good look, IMO.
It was a great look. Own the victory. For a brief moment in time, we made these Congress critters cower and fear for their lives. The government should fear WE THE PEOPLE, not the other way around!
Exactly this.
"His movement" is a populist coalition representing many different ideological subgroups who believe in America First. There's plenty of diversity of opinion on this site alone, and we don't even represent the whole movement. His own team dismissed the Rubicon Don nonsense.
That's why I laugh when someone yells "85,000,000 OF US ARE READY TO STAND UP AND TAKE BACK THIS COUNTRY! GEOTUS JUST SAY THE WORD!"
lol no
That was my response as well.
Like, "What? Do you people even hear yourselves?"
Antifa rushed the capitol. It will be wild was them certifying the election and Pence backstabbing them.
It wasn't antifa it was our guys. I was there. Own the victory. We made them fear us, they are scared shitless, keep up the momentum
Who cares what the media says? They're liars. We were absolutely justified occupying Congress after a stolen election.
well it played out alright...and in the end? he didnt have our backs at all and he can fuck himself. im done with him. he's just like the rest of them. fuck em all
Trump is a figurehead of a movement that created him. He didn't create MAGA; he embodied it and gave it a name. MAGA was previously the Tea Party. There are plenty of Americans, left and right, that view this government as a compromised, abject failure. The key difference is how we make it better - right wants it basically removed, and left wants it to be all-encompassing (because they don't see how that always ends badly).
I agree with everything you said up until "the left wants it to be all encompassing". No. They want Trump and all of his supporters dead.
Sorry I meant they want absolute power for the government, which would include the power to cleanse the opposition (as it always goes in authoritarian regimes). It's quite obvious they want not just Trump supporters, but fence-sitters murdered.