“Well, I think many. I mean, when we get into the Bible, I think many, so many. And some people, look, an eye for an eye, you can almost say that, that’s not a particularly nice thing. But you know, if you look at what’s happening to our country, I mean, when you see what’s going on with our country, how people are taking advantage of us, and how they scoff at us and laugh at us. And they laugh at our face, and they’re taking our jobs, they’re taking our money, they’re taking the health of our country. And we have to be very firm and have to be very strong. And we can learn a lot from the Bible, that I can tell you.”
A story that is not getting the attention it deserves is a campaign appearance by Trump on Friday filled with nonsense phrases, slurred words, and factual mistakes about historical events. If Biden had made one-tenth of those miscues in a speech, chicken-little voices in the Democratic Party would be talking about invoking the 25th amendment to remove Biden from the presidency. And yet, the story is receiving no coverage in the mainstream press.
It is remarkable to me just how little mainstream reports of this speech convey the more disturbing parts of the content, as well as Trump’s confused and incoherent delivery.
This reminds me of the bystander effect, “He’s so horrible, someone will likely to stop him, right?” And that was how 2016 happened. 2020 proved the voting population no longer counting on “someone” but taking matter into their own hand to deal with this menace.
Because I’ve talked with them, and though yes, they are being completely irrational, they’re really not the kind of people who I’d expect to attend a Trump rally, or to loudly cheer for the end of democracy. They’re actually planning to vote for Nikki Haley, to try and avoid Trump on the ballot. But they’ll still vote for him, and not Biden. I dunno, maybe you’re right. I just hate to think of these people like the rest of the horde.