Quote (thundercock @ Sep 2 2022 04:53pm)
A Trump supporter is someone who likes Trump's policies, may even like his personality, and voted for him. You can be all of those things and acknowledge that he lost. You can be all of these things and support the democratic process. Hell, I have friends and family who fit that category. MAGA Republicans, on the other hand, are what Biden described. Having a single label that encompasses all of those adjectives is convenient and accurate.
Nice speech. You said that. Biden did not.
Biden specifically went with "MAGA Republican", which everyone and their mother immediately identifies as synonymous with "Trump supporter"
Quote (IceMage @ Sep 2 2022 04:53pm)
LMAO.
Dude, the former president tried to do a coup against the incoming administration. Those Trump farts must cause some righteous hallucinations.
Sure he did, his heavily armed junta seized the palace and held everyone at gunpoint as he declared himself emperor for life and dissolved parliament. They did so at his explicit direction as he ordered his militias to seize the opposition and bring them to him bound and chained.
Back in reality, capitol police failed to do any riot control against a mob who wandered aimlessly through the capitol taking selfies, Trump told them to fuck off, then left office as he was supposed to. Odds are if he had actually been taken to his rally like he wanted to, he would have been able to keep them under control in the first place.
^ there's your "coup".
I see plenty of histrionics and wild exaggerations and intemperate language from both sides, militant conspiracy theories in support of totalitarianism that need to be called out and shredded. That's a reason to call out and shred those conspiracy theories, its not a reason to endorse totalitarianism and militancy. "Lock up your political rivals" wasn't a good look when Trump said it but its even worse when Biden actually does it.