Posted on 01/17/2023 2:03:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
Former President Donald Trump lashed out at evangelicals for not supporting his latest presidential campaign, saying it was a “sign of disloyalty” after he appointed three conservative Supreme Court justices and made their long-held dream of overturning Roe v. Wade possible.
Trump, 76, told Real America’s Voice’s “The Water Cooler” Monday that the religious bloc of voters who were key to his 2016 victory have not yet come out to back his 2024 White House bid.
“That’s a sign of disloyalty,” Trump told host David Brody. “There’s great disloyalty in the world of politics, and that’s a sign of disloyalty.”
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No. But I know one thing about Trump. He is ridiculously loyal, even when he shouldn’t be.
To me, that’s a sign of strength, not weakness. I don’t know who he is referring to here, though. But he could print a list of 100 fecalpimples who betrayed him without cause starting with Menopausal Ann and Cerno the Draino.
Consider the source...
2022 - 46.8 percent
2020 - 66.8 percent
2018 - 50.3 percent
2016 - 60.2 percent
2014 - 36.7 percent
The major difference in 2022 is that Americans had two years of catastrophic governance and still chose to not vote and/or voted for the democrats, the cause of the catastrophe. Either choice is beyond human comprehension.
Trump?
It should be easy to prove. Is Trump shy about this sort of thing? You can listen yourself.
Murdoch media.
The NYP is Deep State’s.
Well, it’s pretty easy. Conservatives used to dislike Anthony Kennedy and like Antonin Scalia. Results showed Kennedy was left of center. Trump came along and nominated Kennedy people to SCOTUS. The fact that they were Kennedy acolytes is all you need to know. All of the sudden “conservatives” liked Kennedy and didn’t like Scalia.
Who supports them?
He’s losing it. We evangelicals probably were his biggest supporters.
“If I’m not mistaken, it was the Evangelicals that formed his base.”
You’re not mistaken.
He’s going to start pissing off a lot of people if he doesn’t stop popping off like that. It’s like having your significant other accuse you of cheating.
So basically, you want to anoint a king, and they can do what they want. In the United States, we are supposed to go by the Constitution, not leaders, and leaders are supposed to work for us, not the other way around. You want to give that all up?
So back in 2005, Bush nominated Harriet Miers to SCOTUS, and conservatives pushed back, and he nominated Alito, instead.
According to you, those conservatives were disloyal and evil? Today, Alito is one of only two conservatives on SCOTUS?
You may be right. But the NYP endorsed Trump for President in 2016, 2020, and was his number one supporter in the media for many years, you might need to remember whenever you say that.
The problem is Trump wants to talk about the election being stolen loudly, but he didn’t do anything about it before 2020, or since then. Actions, not words, will solve this problem.
The media also got Trump elected in 2016.
It was never reciprocal.
Anyone who doesn’t take Trump’s vaccine is anti-Trump.
I went looking too and got this:
“Reported voting fell from 64% in 2008 to 46% in 2010. From 2012 to 2014, it dropped from 62% to 42%.”
So that would be a 18 pt. difference between 2008 and 2010, and a 20 pt. difference between 2012 and 2014.
(But this is “reported voting.” May differ slightly from actual certified election statistics.)
Another thing I got was that of the 10 midterm elections since 2002, 2022 turnout was the second highest turnout of midterm elections with 2018 being the highest. (That report just lists the data as “turnout rates,” so I’m assuming that it’s not people just reporting whether or not they voted, but actual turnout of eligible voters.)
Re: 117 - Now THAT is funny!
I expect you’re right.
I guess we're just piling on at this point, but this is actually one of the biggest issues I have with Trump. He had the 2020 election supposedly stolen right out from under his nose, while he was the President. Then, between Nov 2020 and Jan 2021, he raised ~$200M for his "election security fund" but hasn't spent a dime on actual election security, and now even has a grand jury investigating possible mis-appropriation of those funds. Giuliani just testified last week.
It makes a cynic like me wonder if the election was ever actually stolen in the first place. I think it was, but if it was, why has he done nothing but buy a new website and complain on it ever since? Sure, he did a rally for Kari Lake, but that's not how you secure an election.
If you truly believed elections were being stolen, and raised $200M to help correct it, why would you not actually do something to correct it? Especially if you planned on running again.
The whole J6 thing makes me wonder too. If those people were all innocent, why would he just leave them there to be tortured, as is claimed? Maybe they're not innocent, and he knows it?
I don't know the answers, but what I pretty sure I'm seeing is a guy that says one thing, then does another, on some of the most critical things. And when I see that, I just don't trust their motives any more.
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