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Trump suggests if he loses election, Jewish Americans would 'have a lot to do with that'

abcnews.go.com Trump suggests if he loses election, Jewish Americans would 'have a lot to do with that'

Former President Donald Trump told a Jewish group on Thursday that Israel will be "wiped off the face of the Earth" if he doesn't win in November.

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This fucking guy. I hope he gets soundly defeated in November and I never have to hear or read about some dumb shit he said ever again.
- You're making a mistake.
  
  He's not the disease, he's only a symptom of something we're otherwise able to ignore.
  
  There are vast oceans of his supporters who love him because he "tells it like it is", ie he helps them speak more openly about their own bigotry.
  
  Trump going away will only give us someone else, and honestly, they'll probably be moderately competent.
  
  Trump is a godsend, because he is so absolutely, perfectly stupid and incompetent, a real operator would be devastating. Use this opportunity to gain resistance to their form of plague before it's too late.
  
  He’s shingles.
  
  Yeah, the US had the disease pretty bad when it was young. And, it’s laid dormant in the nervous system for years. Some stress and poor health habits have allowed it to rise to the surface.
  
  It won’t ever go away entirely but better habits and self-care can keep it away indefinitely.
  
  They might be moderately more competent, but they likely won't have his charisma and cultural cache. A lot of more competent fascists have tried to steal his thunder, and they've all ended up either kissing his ring (Vance) or flaming out spectacularly (DeSantis).
- I would personally enjoy the only article about him ever reaching headline status again being his obituary.
  
  But we all know that even if he loses he will try and run again if he isn't locked up. He will cry about stolen elections til the day he dies. Even of the Republican leaders try to divorce themselves from him, he will run independent. And a significant amount of the maga movement will follow him there.
  
  I would personally enjoy the only article about him ever reaching headline status again being his obituary.
  
  We need another seven for his convictions and sentencing.
  
  Maybe this is just wishful thinking, but with the amount he seems to have declined in the last few years both physically and mentally, I can't imagine he will be capable in any capacity of running again.
  
  Assuming he actually loses in November (which we all have to hope for to protect US democracy), this scenario, and especially him constantly running as a third party candidate till the day he dies, would lead to a lasting split in the GOP for the foreseeable future - I'm actually not against this outcome in any way!
- There will be plenty news about him after that. If anything he's going to be unleashed by whatever he thinks is restrictive for the election, so I expect the worst. Also all his grifting and law suits and all that shit.
  
  I'm considering blocking everything including his name, because I seriously can't stand watching his disgusting face anymore and nothing good is ever going to come out of it.
  
  Back in the day I did that on Twatter and it helped a lot.
JFC, this piece of shit is actively trying to start a race war. What the fuck.
- It's a tried and true gameplay for fascists throughout history.
  
  They're all typically narcissists, and they all feel like a group wronged them somehow. It's their perceived right to punish them when they gain power for the imagined transgressions they made because they didn't give them what they wanted.
  
  Hitler hated Jews because he believed they were the reason he was unsuccessful in his career and other endeavors and blamed their machinations for his failures.
- You're just now noticing?
  
  Wait until they go back and look at the state visits he took as president.
- "a"? When did you start counting?
Trump, pictured here endorsing a self-described "black Nazi," implicitly threatened a room of Jewish people with genocide if they didn't support him.
- He sure does like black Nazis. Look how happy he is to be with this particular black man who is inexplicably also a Nazi:
  
  Oh no, it's not "inexplicable". The guy's just as dumb as a rock. A moron if you prefer. Someone unintelligent.
  
  What's almost kinda funny, is it looks like Kanye is almost aware that he's being used as a prop in that photo. Like look at his face.
Ah. Nothing like hinting to his nazi goons on who to attack.
From the guy who said you're "not a real Jew" unless you vote for him because of Israel.
- I’m so glad Joe “you ain’t black” Biden dropped out.
Jews find him ignorant.
- He is ignorant.
  
  Ftfy
- Conservative Jews will still vote for him, unfortunately.
Republican'ts: Stop comparing Trump to Hitler!!!! Reeeee

Trump:
Insulting black and hispanic people just isn't hitting the same, what do I do? Oh yeah, let's blame the jews
He is really unable to accurately represent any perspective other than his own, the poster boy for malignant narcissism.
Real Americans will have a lot to do with that.
My theory is he is pandering to Muslim voters in MI with these statements by hinting that Jewish people will vote for democrats
Of course he’s targeting Jews. Shit like this is why I’m sympathetic to the concept of Israel despite condemning all ethnostates.
- I'm pretty extremely anti Israel, especially right now for obvious reasons. But you're right. I can see the motivation, and how fear of antisemitism is justified.
  
  So yeah I'm sympathetic to the concept, but not the execution.
  
  I think this is where I’m at, too. Sure, the Jewish people should have a nation state that represents their interests, the same way catholics have the Vatican. It’s too bad Israel isn’t doing that for them right now :(
  
  Yeah I’m anti Zionist for sure and the new phase of the genocide took it from a “I’m uncomfortable talking about this position I learned from Jewish people because people may think I support the rising antisemitism” to “silence is compliance both in the Israeli genocide of Gaza and in the rising antisemitism in America”.
  
  I’m sympathetic to the initial Zionist movement because I see a lot of similarities between my community (queer people) and Jewish communities experiences and I deeply understand the “this keeps happening and wouldn’t if we could have a country of our own” feeling. But there is no terra nullius worth living on. When I dream of a queer Antarctic nation I understand that that if it were to happen so too would tragedy. Palestine appears to have been inhabited by our genus since before the differentiation of Homo sapiens. When the Jewish diaspora of Palestine occurred it wasn’t total, and even if it was those who moved in weren’t the aggressors here.
  
  So yeah, some of the most traumatized people the world has seen were given the money and arms to take back their ancestral homeland from people they were able to pretend weren’t their long distant relatives who never left. In an act of perceived self preservation a bunch of Holocaust survivors and escapees, with the permission of the colonial holding nation inflicted hell on the people of Palestine. Some of these invaders were sympathetic, some were not, that’s how mass human tragedy tends to go. But to this day Israel is a nation forged out of the Holocaust and those who can’t understand or acknowledge that can’t present arguments that are fair to all sides. This conflict is a cycle of tragedy, hate, and fear.

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