President Donald Trump concluded his Republican midterm convention on Thursday by leading the audience in a pledge … to himself.
Trump asked the crowd to raise their right hands and begin: “I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States.”
The crowd dutifully repeated the line, calling Trump “the greatest president in the history of the United States.”
Trump added: “that loves us so much he can’t even breathe.”
The crowd again repeated the line, but then it got a little harder to follow.
“That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it anyway, I don’t care if I’m registered or not. I’m going to try and cheat like hell like they do,” he said. “There’s never been bigger cheaters, they don’t care. I am going to go out and I am going to get my friends, my family, and we are going to vote on November 3rd or we are going to vote before that.”
Unable to repeat all of that, the crowd cheered.
Trump realized he lost them and reset.
“Are you ready?” he asked. “Here’s the way you ― “
But he wasn’t ready himself as he got sidetracked by people in the audience. He tried once more to finish, with the crowd repeating after him, but left them behind as he went off on another tangent.
“So help me God,” he concluded.
The crowd repeated that part heartily.
“You know what happens if you don’t vote?” Trump asked. “You go to hell!”
So much blasphemy that he’s telling his supporters they’re going to hell!
Bizarre? This is totally in line with his personality.
Repeat after me. “I” state your name.
“I state your name.”
These people would be burning witches in another century.
Conservatives are pure evil. They will be burning witches by the end of this decade if we don’t stop them by force.
Witches, black people, lgbtq+ people…
They will be raiders gangs or worshiping a undetonated nuclear bomb in a future century.
They really really REALLY want to do that here and now.
Yep.
See the agenda of the Seven Mountain Mandate types.
I’d like to make this very clear to all the religious folks out there. Hell does not exist because why would an almighty God allow such an abomination? They wouldn’t. There, relax already.
I can’t reconcile the idea of a loving god with one that tortures people for all of eternity.
Or who only loves you if you pay attention to him.
Absolutely abusive what he is doing to his followers. I wish he would just have the good sense to step down and beg the courts for forgiveness.
Hell absolutely exists.
It’s what Republicans put others through.
And it’s what Republicans strive to put others through.
Republicans will straight up tell you they’re trying to protect you and prevent you from going through hell, while the whole time they’re working hard to make sure you’re going through the hell they’ve created for you your whole life.
And after torturing you, they claim “No, no, no, you don’t understand. You were torturing me!”
There is no god and religion is a mental illness, and BY FAR the greatest threat facing humanity. We will never progress with this defect among us.
Also I’m pretty sure hell doesn’t exist in all religions, so just switch to one that doesn’t have it. People convert all the time.
almighty != all loving but i’m with you. i’ll stop pedanting now
At least in catholicism their god is believed to be omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. Idk how someone can consider themselves a Christian if they don’t believe all three
Maybe, but the religious right needs to burn and suffer in hell. It’s what they f*cking deserve, especially since they’re wearing the mark of the beast upon their brow in the shape of a red hat.
Please please please just say Fuck on the internet. You don’t have to censor yourself.
You simply don’t understand. Without Fire Demon there can be no Skyman. There must exist an antagonist to every good epic tale of us vs them/good vs evil. Without looming fear you cannot control the masses. And the sheep will argue over this to the bitter end.
Edit: but thanks for fighting the “good” fight.
The only thing I like about him is how he humiliates Evangelical Christians regularly. He doesn’t believe any of the shit they do, but he makes them feel like they are gaining cultural power, so they are devoted to him.
This instance is particularly funny. One of the few things he knows about their religion is that they are motivated by a fear of going to hell, so he’s just like “I’ll use that!” If you don’t vote, you go to Hell. So get out and vote, you dumb rubes.
He’s using them.
That’s all he does. 80 years of life and he’s a fucking Locust. He uses what he can and then he moves on.
They keep letting him feed off their fat asses, so he dives in face first to whatever they want him to be, whatever they need him to say, to get them to do what he wants: supply him with the power that fuels his narcissism.
He’s a fucking addict and they are his drug. MFer is getting high on his own supply.
He was previously registered as a Democrat and had donated more to Democrats than Republicans. Hard to say what he truly believes.
He believe in himself
Yeah he’s a relentless narcissist. Believing in something other than himself would take away from his himself to believe in
I care less about what is in his heart than what he does.
He does bad things and lies all the time. I would look at his donations to Democrats as influence peddling and not evidence that he believes anything at all.
Wait, what?
He lived in New York, so all the local politicians were Democrats. Like the other commenter said, it was just influence peddling. He doesn’t care about anything but self-aggrandizement.
Unleashed. Literally.
Not an ounce of democracy in sight
I dunno about that. This is exactly what they voted for.
I think that headline missed the plot.
“That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it anyway, I don’t care if I’m registered or not. I’m going to try and cheat like hell like they do,
Pretty sure this is not the first time he’s openly admitted to/advocated for cheating, while framing it as “because that’s what the left is already doing.”
And he’s a traitor every time he does it. People just let it go, but he’s trying to break democracy.
So there are going to be a lot of unregistered Republican voters casting ballots?
Isn’t this the same party that wants to send voter fraud criminals to a gulag?
Go ahead then, get to it.
The man who complains endlessly about “cheating” just openly advocated for cheating.
He also almost said exactly how to cheat and either realized he needed to shut up or the brain fog kicked in to save him
dammit i’m the fucking blasphemy dude knock it the shit fuck balls off
https://youtu.be/JHBRMyx_xHs?is=hItSVYU6rL2a_DSy
I can’t even. How anyone could be this demented and still be a leader of even a youth sports team would be beyond me, let alone the President of the US.
Ik man. I think he was crushing it for that audience. They love this. They think he’s their guy. If you wanted to make your dog take a pledge it wouldn’t matter that it was meandering either. Woof! Just woof.
without share tracking: https://youtu.be/JHBRMyx_xHs
i can’t help but notice that youtube changed the get variable name recently from
sitois, i’m guessing in an attempt to screw with extensions that strip these out.Nah, they’re not the only one to do it, insta and fbook did too
Oof, I will have to reset to cut that out. Thanks.
this app makes it easy if you set it as your default browser: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker
So he just authorized conservatives to openly cheat.
The projection is just…
I can’t with these people.
Not authorised. INSTRUCTED.
Let me repeat that: the current sitting president of the US gave an instruction to his followers to ignore the rule of the law and cheat at the election.
Even more brazenly than on 6 Jan 2021, he’s literally instructing his followers to dismantle the entire legal basis of the federal state.
Watch it, his next attempt will be to then discredit the midterms’ results and claim they don’t count so the already sitting representatives stay.
They’re getting desperate to keep control, because they KNOW people are going to vote blue. Mamdani’s example of successful leadership contrasts the disaster of the cabinet too sharply. People are starting to see through the constant communist scaremongering.
Not authorised. INSTRUCTED.
It’s far worse than that. He’s trying to get them to take a vow, to make a personal promise – literally “so help me god” – so that those who promise will then believe they will be held accountable before “god” to fulfill.
He’s literally trying to make this promise have religious consequences for failing to live up to it in the minds of those who took it.
People who think this is all imaginary have no idea how real it is for those heavily propagandized in this way, who have had their real faith hijacked by Christian nationalist propaganda. It’s no joke. It’s all VERY legal, tick the box, “You said this and now you’re bound by it” with actual threat of hellfire attached at the end. Just like Trump did here. Most of us would laugh; MAGAs do not.
This exact dynamic is why Republicans are so terrified of James Talarico down in Texas: he’s offering the MAGAs who have equated Christianity with MAGA Christian nationalism a real off ramp from Trump that allows them to keep their church, faith, and local community.
If you’re in a rural area where all you know are the 500 people that live in your mostly MAGA town, and you can’t afford to be ostracized or you’ll literally have no community left, it’s a big fucking deal.
This faux “Christianization” of politics is very real, and that’s what he’s trying to capitalize on by making the rubes take a “repeat after me, so help me god” kind of vow.
Fortunately, he fucked it up, so they all have plausible deniability if they want it. But that’s why he was struggling so hard to get them back on track and to repeat the whole thing: he knew exactly what he was doing, and to what end.
So what? The rest of the country doesn’t give a shit. You’re going to sit there on your asses and feign helplessness and allow it. Fucking WATCH.
Some right wing nutjob is going to end Talarico too. There is no way they’re going to let him win.
He’s shitting his pants. Also, he’s fucking terrified of the midterms.
Midterms? Too old for him.
So, a direct pledge to him as god-king-emperor in which he claims moral authority over their previous god, and that he has the old god’s power of final judgement.
Sigh, I wish with all my heart this were actually binding. I can think of nothing better than these creatures getting an eternity in a pocket universe of trump’s creation with him as the supreme power.
It is rather unchristian. Perhaps… Anti-Christian
It’s been nearly 30 years since I fervently believed that an afterlife was real. This comment made me wish it were true.
Dante could add a whole extra ring of Hell for the MAGA faithful.
What a fuccen time to be alive. Could really use a grassy knoll right about now.
Weve had one, yes, but what about 2nd grassy knoll?
Personally I’m not hyped about a President Vance, but it would certainly be cathartic to see him suffer and die. I really want to see him die in prison, we almost had that until they voted him back in while his trials were ongoing.
As I’ve pointed out before, Trump dying probably spares us the worst of the MAGA heads, but where Trump wants to lead with charisma and a charged base, I feel like Vance is actually content with keeping power via use of arms. The guy is craven at the thought of having power.
Vance is too stupid to hold onto power, and genuinely believes he has charisma when it’s obvious he doesn’t. He’s going to try to ride on Trump’s cult of personality and get wrecked. The death of Trump will cause infighting that no faction can win.
Aside from all the collateral damage (which will be significant unfortunately), the only remaining factions that likely will be a problem afterwards are some militias and some of the billionaire donors (in both cases it’s those who exit early to protect themselves when the fighting starts) because they’ll try to pretend they’re reformed later or deny involvement
Vance is too stupid to hold onto power,
He isn’t dumber than the current guy.
That’s a very very low bar. Clearing that isn’t evidence he’s capable of anything
Insofar as the current guy is doing a very good job at holding on to power, I’d strongly disagree. Being smart is clearly not a requirement.
I guess we better pledge to cheat like hell or something
That’s as close to a Nazi salute as he can get without even the American media catching on.
