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Cyrano

(15,075 posts)
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 04:38 PM Mar 17

Regarding "Immigrants are animals," and a "Bloodbath."

There are still tens of millions of brain dead Trump voters in America.

He's now said aloud, that immigrants are "animals."

And he's threatened if he doesn't win the election, there will be a "Bloodbath."

This doesn't surprise or shock me. It's who he is and always has been.

But here's what does surprise/shock me. Millions still intend to vote for him.

What the fuck is wrong with these people?

His voters have heard those words. Yet, they're still with him.

What the fuck is wrong with America?

He's uncovered something we may not have known about some of our friends, neighbors, and even members of our own families. And once the Orange Prick is dead and gone, it won't change how we now view them. I guess we've all assumed that basic human decency was a basic quality to be found in most people. Especially those whom we thought we knew.

His legacy will be that he's shown us that much of the world is far more ugly than we ever imagined.

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Regarding "Immigrants are animals," and a "Bloodbath." (Original Post) Cyrano Mar 17 OP
Make America openly racist again! Lunabell Mar 17 #1
Homo Sapiens are animals................... Lovie777 Mar 17 #2
I think that's why he also said "not people". Think. Again. Mar 17 #5
Dehumanization of the other JustAnotherGen Mar 17 #27
Yes, and it's been studied that... Think. Again. Mar 17 #29
Sad, but true peppertree Mar 17 #17
Excellent point. Think. Again. Mar 17 #30
Trump's supporters fear the Wrong Things! NowsTheTime Mar 18 #34
And just think of the millions... Think. Again. Mar 17 #3
Irony that his Mother, Grandfather and 2 of his wives were immigrants ! kimbutgar Mar 17 #4
Trump's mother was also an immigrant to the US. Irish_Dem Mar 17 #7
She was the first person soldierant Mar 17 #24
Thanks, I see that now. Irish_Dem Mar 17 #25
Tut tut malaise Mar 17 #21
I'm calling it magasplaining. When they start making excuses for his words Walleye Mar 17 #6
Nice malaise Mar 17 #22
They're zombies. 2naSalit Mar 17 #8
I wish people would listen more carefully: They really are planning a blood bath, and here's how it will go down: BComplex Mar 17 #9
Watch for the "Reichstag fire" event also. Arne Mar 17 #10
One has to remember that half multigraincracker Mar 17 #11
In the US NanaCat Mar 17 #16
Paul Simon had a theory in 1968. moondust Mar 17 #12
Dehumanizing his targets is a key step - the piece of shit knows exactly what he is doing dalton99a Mar 17 #13
Right out of Hitler's playbook. SergeStorms Mar 17 #28
In other places, never thought I would see Dems defending inflammatory language from a fucking idiot like Orange Bastard SoFlaBro Mar 17 #14
They simply are out for blood and don't care about anything else. Lord of the Rings stuff. Anything is "on the table." Evolve Dammit Mar 17 #15
It is truly a cult. Kablooie Mar 17 #18
What's wrong with America? This: TygrBright Mar 17 #19
The truth hurts. hay rick Mar 17 #20
Racism n/t hibbing Mar 17 #23
Trump has made hatred and violence entertaining. Irish_Dem Mar 17 #26
This message was self-deleted by its author traitorsgalore Mar 18 #31
Nah, the stupid fucking Orange Turd was talking about the auto industry. Piss on that fucking turd. SoFlaBro Mar 18 #32
It was the people I thought I knew that really leftyladyfrommo Mar 18 #33

Lunabell

(6,133 posts)
1. Make America openly racist again!
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 04:42 PM
Mar 17

They're taking off their hoods and openly declaring their hate. I'm so sad for these folks. And gee, is it so damned difficult to press "1" for english? Does it hurt your feeble little white finger?

Lovie777

(12,390 posts)
2. Homo Sapiens are animals...................
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 04:44 PM
Mar 17

supposedly at a much higher brain level which I'm not sure about.

Think. Again.

(8,690 posts)
5. I think that's why he also said "not people".
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 04:48 PM
Mar 17

Committing a bloodbath on (killing) people is one thing, on animals it's another (in the minds of some 'people').

Think. Again.

(8,690 posts)
29. Yes, and it's been studied that...
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 07:58 PM
Mar 17

...serial killers tend to dehumanize their victims to themselves before murdering them.

I fully believe that trump is intentionally attempting to prepare and prompt his followers to commit widespread violence to the immigrant and population as well as any non-magats.

I believe he is now using his rallies to recruit people into a violent mob ready to act on his signal.

peppertree

(21,711 posts)
17. Sad, but true
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 07:02 PM
Mar 17

This is why fascists always have an edge: 1) big business backing, of course; but 2) human nature itself.

And the more they can scare us with this or that, the more fascist we tend to become as a group.

Deep down, sadly, our brains are still wired for caveman life - the only thing we've ever known until a geological blink-of-an-eye ago.

This is why we tend to be greedy, horny, gluttonous, devious and misanthropic - those very flaws promoted survival until just a few thousand years ago.

In other words, Trump.

Irish_Dem

(47,697 posts)
7. Trump's mother was also an immigrant to the US.
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 04:59 PM
Mar 17

Mary MacLeod was born 1912 in Scotland.
She came to the US in 1930 and became a naturalized citizen in 1942.
She married Fred Trump in 1936.

BComplex

(8,082 posts)
9. I wish people would listen more carefully: They really are planning a blood bath, and here's how it will go down:
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 05:10 PM
Mar 17

1) There is a planned oil production stoppage by the Saudi buddies of the trump family, and their OPEC cohorts, well, and Russia. This is the part of the coup that is supposed to hit Biden hard enough to make the election seem much closer than it would have been without the huge rise in oil prices. Oil prices are about to go sky high in the fall....just in time for people to freak out and blame it on Biden like they did last time...and of course, the right wing media will be telling people every 10 seconds that it's Biden's fault.

2) The hiring of Chris LaCivita of Swiftboating fame to run the trump campaign. They have also lined up a planned huge influx of (Heritage Foundation-type) Billionaire donors, across the country and the world. The Swiftboating mode of operation is to make Biden's strengths appear to be his weaknesses, and they will go for the jugular, like they did John Kerry back in 2004 with the lying Swiftboaters. They plan to lie about Biden 24/7 with just enough truth to make it appear legit, and it will be all over rightwing media & social media.

3) The hiring of Atty. Christina Bobb, beauty queenish Q-anon believer, election denier and right wing propagandist extraordinaire, to oversee "election integrity". They want to make sure mail in voting is seen as the end of all election integrity, and one of the pillars to turn their newly hired/lined up lawyers loose with "receipts" this time. No matter what they have to rig at the local level, they are going to make sure they can point to "evidence" this time that will hold up in court, or at least hold up the certification of the election FOR REAL.

4) The hiring of many many right wing lawyers who are now fully prepared to gather information that can be used to actually bring some kind of evidence to court, and to challenge every state, or district, that Biden wins that trump wants.

5) The firing of many key players in the RNC who MIGHT blow the whistle on the trump team and call out their evil doings, much as republicans in the former trump administration STOPPED, or tried to stop, trump from doing things he shouldn't. Going into this election, it's going to be total magats, dyed in the wool trump rump lickers on the inside of the Trump army.

6)The games will begin at a time and place designated by Chris LaCivita, that will be close enough to the election to have maximum impact to smear ALL democrats, not just Biden, and will be coordinated with the oil cut off by the Saudis & friends. This will insure that Biden and the Democrats don't have time to form a defensive strategy to counteract the chaos.

THIS IS THE BLOODBATH that trump is bragging about. And the Democrats had better be paying attention and have SOME sort of retaliation or defense, or it will truly be a gruesome bloodbath. Trump is desperate, and he doesn't care that he will destroy this country to keep from going to jail, and to be able to realize his dream of becoming a dictator like his buddies.

multigraincracker

(32,744 posts)
11. One has to remember that half
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 06:34 PM
Mar 17

the population scores 100 points or less on IQ test. He has found a way to get them, his base, to vote.

NanaCat

(1,429 posts)
16. In the US
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 06:56 PM
Mar 17

I read somewhere that the average IQ in the US is 97, not 100. That means the country has gotten 3 points dumber since the original IQ test.

Worse, it also means that more than half of all Americans are below the 100 average. When the majority of a country are below average in intelligence, Is it any wonder that TSF has so much support?

moondust

(20,019 posts)
12. Paul Simon had a theory in 1968.
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 06:37 PM
Mar 17

Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest.

Lie la lie, lie la lie la lie la lie
Lie la lie, lie la lie la lie la lie, la la lie la lie

~The Boxer~


Far more ugly.

dalton99a

(81,673 posts)
13. Dehumanizing his targets is a key step - the piece of shit knows exactly what he is doing
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 06:43 PM
Mar 17
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trumps-ramped-up-rhetoric-raises-new-concerns-about-violence-and-authoritarianism
Trump’s ramped-up rhetoric raises new concerns about violence and authoritarianism
Nov 13, 2023 6:35 PM EDT

...

Yes, so he — as I said, there's a two-part thing that authoritarians do.

First, they change the view of violence. And Mr. Trump, since 2015, he started saying at his rallies, using his rallies and campaign events for radicalizing people. And he started saying, oh, in the old days, you used to hurt people. The problem is, Americans don't hurt each other anymore.

So now he's going into a new phase of openly dehumanizing his targets so that will lessen the taboos in the future. And we see that, in 2025, he's got plans for mass deportations, mass imprisonments and giant camps. So you need people to be less sensitive about violence, either committing it themselves or tolerating it.

And I see that as his — the reason he's using this dehumanizing rhetoric now, to prepare people.

...

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
28. Right out of Hitler's playbook.
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 07:56 PM
Mar 17

Trump and his handlers (think: Stephen Miller) know exactly what they're doing, and expect the hate talk to ramp up even more before November.

Vermin, animals, rapists, murderers......Trump is taking all humanity from these oppressed people.

I wish he could spend one day in these people's shoes. It wouldn't do any good, though. Someone completely devoid of humanity would have no compassion for them. Talk about someone being an "animal," Donald? Go look in a mirror, which is something you do quite often, I'm certain.

SoFlaBro

(1,988 posts)
14. In other places, never thought I would see Dems defending inflammatory language from a fucking idiot like Orange Bastard
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 06:44 PM
Mar 17

Evolve Dammit

(16,803 posts)
15. They simply are out for blood and don't care about anything else. Lord of the Rings stuff. Anything is "on the table."
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 06:49 PM
Mar 17

The ones arming up since 2008 when O was coming to take their guns, have only entrenched their views. Thanks to Limbaugh, Fox, Jones, Beck, Hannity, Bannon, tucker et al. Keep the hate up, villainize others and viola! You made a cult. Not a serious political party, but a death cult.

Kablooie

(18,645 posts)
18. It is truly a cult.
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 07:06 PM
Mar 17

They accept anything and everything he says without thinking.
It's a pure cult mentality.
I expect Fox and AM Radio primed them for decades and now they have what they were trained for, unquestioning dedication to one man and everything he stands for, which is only himself.

TygrBright

(20,776 posts)
19. What's wrong with America? This:
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 07:27 PM
Mar 17

The Republican Party, with the enthusiastic help and funding of various domestic corporations and oligarchs, and the occasional assistance of foreign interests who do NOT have America's best interests at heart, began a project over sixty years ago: Dismantling public education.

Without much fanfare, it has been at or near the top of their agenda at every level from Federal to local, on a permanent basis, since the 1960s. Here's what this does for them:

First and foremost, it secures them a dedicated, permanent cadre of both tacitly and explicitly racist voters.

Second and not inconsiderable, it secures them a dedicated, permanent cadre of religious wackadoodle voters.

Third, and very much valued, it allows them to funnel tax dollars away from those who DON'T generally vote Republican and into religious schools, charter schools, voucher programs, etc. that benefit their terrified, hate-driven base, as well as the grifters running shitty ideology-based educational scams.

Fourth, on a smaller but still valuable scale, it allows them to disrupt public school tax funding generally, which often plays to their corporate and oligarch stakeholders by keeping local taxes low, kneecapping mil levies, etc.

Fifth, and deeply appreciated, it provides them with an endless string of culture-war hair-on-fire stupidities to keep their voters terrified.

Finally, a little cherry on top of the whole sundae of benefits to them, it ensures that more young people are getting less effective education, which makes them less likely to grow up into the kind of voters who take an intelligent interest in their own well-being.

Three whole generations of Americans have been raised in those 60 years, and in each generation, an increasing number experienced ever crappier, more crowded, more poorly-funded, less-effective schools.

Critical thinking. Civics classes. Arts education. Individual attention. A sense of safety. A sense of adventure and excitement in learning. Small classes. Highly-trained teachers. Highly-experienced teachers. Every year there are fewer of those things in our public education system, thanks to the GOP's diligence in fucking over public education.

Why are you surprised at the number of voters who think a "bloodbath" will be a good thing? Why are you surprised at the number of voters who enthusiastically dehumanize anyone they are told to?

This is not a new phenomenon, it did not come out of nowhere. It was the plan, all along. And it is reaching fruition.

sadly,
Bright

hay rick

(7,653 posts)
20. The truth hurts.
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 07:35 PM
Mar 17

The only thing more toxic than the ugly truth is the belief that you can ignore the truth and it will go away.

Irish_Dem

(47,697 posts)
26. Trump has made hatred and violence entertaining.
Sun Mar 17, 2024, 07:50 PM
Mar 17

People love it.

And they want to see the people they hate in harm's way.
Killed.

Appealing to the dark underbelly of human nature.

Response to Cyrano (Original post)

leftyladyfrommo

(18,874 posts)
33. It was the people I thought I knew that really
Mon Mar 18, 2024, 04:07 PM
Mar 18

bothered me. I lost 2 year's long friends to this stupidity. And it wasn't me that left them behind. They left me.

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