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!
These people would be burning witches in another century.
They really really REALLY want to do that here and now.
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.
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.
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 was previously registered as a Democrat and had donated more to Democrats than Republicans. Hard to say what he truly believes.
Wait, what?
He believe in himself
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.
It feels more like a concert than a political convention lmao
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.
without share tracking: https://youtu.be/JHBRMyx_xHs
Go to any backwards town and get 4 people to stand behind you smiling in an extremely tight shot and pretend you’re loved by everyone.
He’s shitting his pants. Also, he’s fucking terrified of the midterms.
Midterms? Too old for him.
That’s as close to a Nazi salute as he can get without even the American media catching on.
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.”
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Some right wing nutjob is going to end Talarico too. There is no way they’re going to let him win.
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
I guess we better pledge to cheat like hell or something
The 33% who are too stupid and too racist to care what he says. They just love pulling off his diaper and giving him a sloppy rim job.
Not sure if serious… (I’ve seen how you comment and post, lol)
I was totally unprepared for this imagery. Viceral.
I trust him on this.
Oh my fucking god I’d say this can’t be real but it defiantly is
