This is what he said. This is what the man said, verbatim, in Detroit last week:

Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀

@wdlindsy is he seeing his events as Dante’s Inferno.
Wound he know Dante’s Inferno from Dante’s Pasta and NYC Pizza slice ?

William Lindsey :toad:

@MishaVanMollusq I doubt he'd have a clue about who Dante was, but an interesting question as to whether he's somehow echoing The Inferno. I understand from commentary he's referencing circles Biden had drawn on the floor — at the White House? — to keep people at safe distances from each other in the pandemic. Bottom line for me is, this is plumb crazy talk.

William Lindsey :toad:

@patrascan I echo that prayer along with you.

William Lindsey :toad:

@MylesRyden You're right. The interesting thing is, Trump's followers continue to pretend that they and they alone own patriotism. In my very Democrat-voting liberal neighborhood, I am seeing one single Trump sign — a row of them, in fact. The house that has put them into its hard has on its porch not one but two honking big American flags waving in the background.

MylesRyden

@wdlindsy

Of course there is an America they do love, but it is hard for them to admit that they do. The America they love is genocidal, slave owning, militaristic and white male dominated.

Jonathan Kamens

@wdlindsy What I would love to see is for someone to pay for full-page ads in every newspaper in the country the Sunday before the election, just quoting Trump's words from his rallies, just as you've done here.
Just quoting them. No editing, no commentary, no explanations. Just Donald Trump's words in quotation marks.
Can you imagine?
The newspapers should have been doing this themselves, of course, every single day.
But if they're not going to, then someone else should.

Jonathan Kamens

@wdlindsy I will give the #WashingtonPost a bit of credit for at least trying. But note that this is in their editorial section, not their news section.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/482NcAs

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@wdlindsy @MylesRyden
My neighbor was out in his yard (doing major work on siding that it despertely needs) with his almost billboard sized "Trump 2024 No More Bullshit" flag and an American flag.
I imagine most of the day he's tuned and focused to those channels that feed the idea that they are the warriors for "good."
At least NPR just played a big chunk of that babble, BUT now they're just chatting about false allegations of election fraud.
Perhaps at least mentioning that he's babbling incoherently?

William Lindsey :toad:

@geonz @MylesRyden Isn't it telling that they chose those billboard-sized signs and flags? Almost as if they're over-compensating for something that's very small….

William Lindsey :toad:

@jik Thank you so much for the link. It doesn't open for me, unfortunately, and I've found that happens when I myself share gift links to WaPo here. I will see if I can open and read using the Archive.Today site.

P.S. Yes — it opened for me there and I'll read it now!

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@wdlindsy @MylesRyden I wish noting that worked better but I also think that it's simply threatening violence.

William Lindsey :toad:

@jik W wonderful suggestion.

William Lindsey :toad:

@MylesRyden Yes, the American they love is "their" America, which can be crafted only by spinning fantasies and denying the actual history of the nation they claim to love, just as you say.

Greengordon

@wdlindsy

Wow, his mind is scrambled. Anybody who thinks Trump is capable needs to read this short thread.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Greengordon Absolutely.

William Lindsey :toad:

@geonz @MylesRyden I may have lost the thread here, but if you mean that the oversized billboard sign is a way of threatening violence, then, yes, that makes sense to me.

MylesRyden

@wdlindsy @geonz

Not quite. To me, the phrase "No more BS," literally means we are going to solve problems permanently. Trans people in bathrooms? Round them up and get rid of them. Immigrants "taking our jobs?" Round them up and get rid of them. Etc.

A final solution for everything.

William Lindsey :toad:

@MylesRyden @geonz Again, I seem to be losing the thread. I hadn't seen that phrase "no more BS" in the thread, so I'm not sure why we're discussing it now. Not that this isn't a good point and that your analysis isn't good — just not sure I'm following well and for that reason, not sure I'm responding coherently.

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@wdlindsy @MylesRyden I noted that it was on the bill board sized banner under TRUMP 2024 (as well as a flag or two).

William Lindsey :toad:

@geonz @MylesRyden Thank you for clarifying. I see why I didn't find that phrase when I did a search for "no more BS." You spelled the word out. Sorry I had missed that point. I agree with both of you in the points you're making.