A two-sourced post on
the same subject: First, is Trump’s speech at the CPAC-2024 annual conference
in Maryland (February 24) reported on here from THE ATLANTIC with their
headline eye-popping story:
“Trump Delivers Another
Autocratic Tirade”
Trump’s CPAC speech was wild and full of falsehoods, but more
important, it was yet another fascistic rant, full of fear, rambling
half-thoughts, delusions, and, direct threats warning: “Our country is being
destroyed. And the only thing standing between you and its obliteration is me.”
The New York Times,
previewed the speech with a headline and predicting that Trump Will Outline a Thriving U.S. Amid a Second Term and in his
words that has the potential to connect powerfully to the fears and lives of
millions of Americans and that the upcoming presidential election with saying:
“Will be our new liberation day and that for Americans I consider to be liars
and cheaters and fraudsters and censors and imposters who have commandeered our
government, it will be their judgment day. The sinister forces trying to kill
America have done everything they can to stop me, to silence you, and to turn
this nation into a socialist dumping ground for criminals, junkies, Marxists,
thugs, radicals, and dangerous refugees that no other country wants.”
This year, he added some new tropes, including referring to his legal problems as Stalinist show trials orchestrated by the Biden administration, a historical reference that is probably lost on the CPAC crowd (and might not be understood by Trump himself) but that serves as another marker of his contempt for the American judicial system.
He smeared everyone involved in
his prosecutions as a “Mob of radical-left Democrat
partisans masquerading as judges and juries and prosecutors who want to steal
my liberty.”
In previous years, CPAC
apparently tried to screen out neo-Nazis and white nationalists and
supremacists, but this year, members of such groups were this time
observed wearing badges.
So, a former president of
the United States went off on an autocratic soliloquy — happily ditching his
teleprompter for some of it — to a group that
included self-identified Nazis.
He warned that he was the singular figure: “The last chance standing between ordinary citizens and the bloodshed, chaos, and violent crime” that he claims has now arrived at the hands of roving gangs of terrorists and criminals.”
And, at the ballot box, he said: “They will get a reckoning, like they haven’t even imagined before. We’re gonna straighten out our country.”
Who is they? They are the people, it seems, who do not support
Trump, his fellow citizens who are in his eyes vermin
and whom he referred to at CPAC as “…thugs and tyrants and fascists,
scoundrels, and rogues.”
Meanwhile, he decried the incarceration of the “hostages” who are
serving time for the January 6 insurrection, claiming: “There’s never been
in the history of our country a group of people treated the way they’ve been
treated.”
Part Two is from THE AP with their Trump headline:
“Trump calls himself a
‘proud political dissident’ in CPAC speech”
Highlights from that
AP article (formatted to fit the blog):
Trump cast November’s presidential election as “judgment day”
and declared himself a “proud political dissident” during a speech before
conservative activists outside of Washington Saturday as he again cloaked his
campaign in religious imagery.
Trump said in part: “For hardworking Americans, November 5 will be our new liberation day. But for the liars and cheaters and fraudsters and censors and imposters who have commandeered our government, it will be judgment day. When we win, the curtain closes on their corrupt reign and the sun rises on a bright new future for America. I stand before you today only as your past and hopefully future president, but as a proud political dissident. I am a dissident.”
Last year, at CPAC Trump said that his 2024 campaign
would be one of “retribution,” saying: “In 2016, I declared: I am your
voice. Today I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who
have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”
This time, Trump cast
himself as a savior standing between his supporters and near-anarchy as he
spoke of “Hoards of illegal aliens stampeding across our borders” warning that the
country’s social safety net and education system would “buckle and collapse
under the gangs will be invading your territory. These are the stakes of this
election: Our country is being destroyed and the only thing standing between you
and its obliteration is me while Biden’s leadership express train barrels toward
servitude and to ruin. (Sic)”
Trump then added:
“A vote for Trump is your ticket back to freedom, it’s your passport out of
tyranny and it’s your only escape from Joe Biden and his gang’s fast track to
hell. And in many ways, we’re living in hell right now. The unprecedented
success of the United States of America will be my ultimate and absolute
revenge.”
KEY FACTS TRUMP NEVER MENTIONS:
(1) Violent crime is down
nationwide according to the most recent FBI statistics.
(2) Despite public
perception, recent data on the economy has
shown that growth accelerated last year.
(3) Inflation returned
closer to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, thus proving wrong both Wall Street
and academic economists who had been predicting a recession.
Trump said the 91 felony charges he faces in four jurisdictions
are attempts by Biden to damage his candidacy. FYI: There’s no evidence whatsoever that Biden influenced Trump’s charges
in any way.
My 2 Cents: Ladies and gentlemen who stop by and read the above
please keep in mind what Trump says and believes he will carry out if he wins
the White House again, but, then we will have to duck for cover as we see the nation crumble
under his “Jackbooted promises and pledges.”
I believe he would try all
those things, but I won’t trust him for one single minute about being
successful to carry them out or even winning in November – I trust the voters
NOT Trump. Hope you agree, too.
My other related same subject
post is here – FYI.
Thanks for stopping by.
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