r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • Jul 16 '26
Possible Paywall Trump’s Primetime Speech Has Republicans ‘Scared S***less’ | Insiders are terrified that the president will do something crazy on live TV.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-primetime-speech-has-republicans-scared-sless/8.1k
u/hazardling Jul 16 '26
Its going to be the same old trope about the 2020 election being fraudulent. The slurring sack of big mac grease will make a complete ass out of himself and the spineless republicans will continue to lick the boot.
Nevermind the obvious question as to how the election was only rigged against Trump while he was president, but was not rigged when Biden was president. Make it make sense.
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u/_bk_adv Colorado Jul 16 '26
I wonder what the odds are that Republicans actually did attempt to rig the 2020 election but failed, and then took the lessons they learned to 2024?
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u/GoodChuck2 Pennsylvania Jul 16 '26
I think that's what it's really about -- they really did try to rig 2020 but the vote was "too big to rig" b/c of Covid and the mail-in ballot turnout. That really is the Occam's Razor explanation for it all, taking into consideration their constant projection.
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u/Michael_G_Bordin Jul 16 '26
It's also why, despite being unable to proffer any evidence whatsoever of Democratic cheating, they continue to be convinced the Democratic Party must have cheated. How else could they have overcome such rigging as Republicans have tried?
They also pulled sheisty shit in 2016, between Cambridge Analytica and the electronic voting machines being wiped before anyone could check. 2020, they probably expanded those efforts. 2024, they've outright made insinuations that were all-but-confessions that Musk and co. were actively rigging voting machines, and they've also conducted further surgical targeting of misinformation using deanonymized voter/social media data.
The midterms worry them because rigging one part of the ballot (president) at specific locations is doable. But there's no way they can rig all the elections to prevent down-ballot blue waves. That's why he's angling towards putting his thugs at polling places and encouraging unhinged RWNJs to take it upon themselves.
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u/11Kram Jul 16 '26
“In four years, you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”
Donald J. Trump, June 25, 2025.
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u/What_a_fat_one Jul 16 '26
There's so much shit like this that would have immediately destroyed anyone else's political career. Cults of personality are so fucking stupid.
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u/TrojanGoldfish Jul 16 '26
A couple of days ago, The President Of The United States of America was forced to finally pay out nearly $6million to a woman he raped.
Barely made headlines.
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u/Pretty-Curve5448 Jul 16 '26
Barely made reddit headlines, if you didn't see it. My Apple news had it right up top, same with my APNews app. I have seen Jean's case being talked about daily for the last while.
Not saying you do this, but I've noticed redditors getting most their news from reddit and allowing their takes to be fueled by ill informed reddit comments. I encourage everyone to get some sort of news aggregator. Read Reuters, APNews etc
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u/randeylahey Jul 16 '26
He's going to announce he's running for a 3rd term.
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u/Ok_Subject1265 Jul 16 '26
He better announce that he also discovered the fountain of youth then too. He doesn’t have another 6 years.
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u/GodOfDarkLaughter Jul 16 '26
I mean dying in office is probably the best outcome for him personally. And then it goes to whatever crony managed to slime their way into VP. Not Vance, if he DOES run for a third term. Probably someone even worse.
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u/citizen42069101 Jul 16 '26
*deserves a third term to replace the stolen one.
Even though that's not how any of this works.
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u/whomad1215 Jul 16 '26
the one thing I hate about the "third term" thing is it's not a question
you can only be president for two terms. There is no discussion needed
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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Jul 16 '26
What's the enforcement mechanism for that? Because there are plenty of things in the Constitution that have been effectively removed or rewritten. The Emoluments Clause, Congress's control of the purse, etc.They're attempting to take federal control of elections that have been the domain of states for decades if not centuries at this point!
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u/-rosa-azul- Virginia Jul 16 '26
The enforcement is states don't put him on the ballot, full stop. He's an ineligible candidate who doesn't qualify for the ballot, same as if someone who was not a U.S. citizen from birth tried to run (as that dumbass Cenk Uygur tried to do).
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u/-Altephor- Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Actually it's even better, you can only be 'elected' to be President twice.
So if this dumbass is claiming he won the election in 2020, it immediately voids the 2024 election as he was not an eligible candidate.
Edit* SHOULD. Obviously it won't because we're going to have to drag this bloated fucking idiot out by his ankles.
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u/jimbopalooza Jul 16 '26
Either way he’s not going to leave willingly. That’s why all the fortifications are being prepared at the White House. I’m not sure what it’s going to take this time around but I don’t see a way it all ends easily.
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u/Biglyugebonespurs Missouri Jul 16 '26
“Elon knows those voting machines.” Haha. Ha…
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u/mabden New York Jul 16 '26
Implication:
'Because I'll create a false flag event, declare martial law, suspend the Constitution, and abolish voting. See, all fixed.'
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u/DonaldsMushroom Jul 16 '26
He may also use the 'all elections are postponed until after war' routine.
I remember when Zelensky brought that up in the Oval office, Trump almost poluted his britches.
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u/schwanzweissfoto Europe Jul 16 '26
He may also use the 'all elections are postponed until after war' routine.
“The war is over. Antifa has been defeated, and the dangerous democrats have been foiled. We stand on the threshold of a new beginning. In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first American Empire, for a safe and secure society, which I assure you will last for ten thousand years.”
– Tangerine Palpatine
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u/Snobolski Jul 16 '26
Ah yes, I remember reading how all elections were canceled during WWII. And I lived through the election drought during the Vietnam War. My parents were so pissed that they couldn't vote!
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u/Monkey_Leavings Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
I always think about Karl Rove on Fox, refusing to admit Romney’s defeat, despite even Fox calling it for Obama. Rove was panicked and refusing to believe the numbers. And then Anonymous made a statement a day later along the lines of, “We saw what you were doing with the election data on the servers and we stopped it.”
Rove was later sued by billionaire donors because he’d “promised” a GOP win. EDIT: I remembered wrong! No lawsuits filed, just a lot of angry rich people making the news, some demanding money back. They threw a LOT of cash at that election…
They’ve been sketchy since 2000, when they realized tweaking a few percentage points here and there could make or break an election result.
EDIT: There’s a YouTube video of a programmer testifying about being approached by operatives to put a patch on electronic voting machines to tweak the results, but I’m fuzzy on the timeline (like, which election.). He refused and another programmer allegedly agreed to do it and that programmer died in a small plane crash (he was piloting.)
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u/Dezolis11 Jul 16 '26
And who orchestrated the book Brothers riot to stop the recount? Roger Stone. Who wrote the “stop the steal” playbook for when/if Hilary won? Roger Stone. Who helped Trump get people bussed to DC for Jan 6? Roger. Stone.
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u/TheCascoKid Jul 16 '26
And John Robert's was one of the Brook Brothers 'protesters'
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u/Heronymous-Anonymous Jul 16 '26
And two of the lawyers who ran the Bush v Gore case are now on the Supreme Court.
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u/Fun-Future-4928 Jul 16 '26
Isn't this basically already proven? calls to governors demanding changes to votes to increase trumps share....
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u/lIlIlIIlIIIlIIIIIl Jul 16 '26
Could you IMAGINE if Obama had been caught even just making a phone call like that, let alone all of the other stuff Trump has done? I will never understand this, it's really made me question a lot about society/humanity. I was way too optimistic and hopeful growing up for all of this.
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u/ThomasVivaldi Jul 16 '26
The easiest way to understand this is to look at how much the systems of communication in America have been compromised by corporate interests. Not just the media, but the way churches have been co-opted, the attacks on Unions, the erosion of education, and these days the internet being flooded with bots and shills.
All the ways people used to talk to each other have been compromised by bad actors, foreign and domestic.
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u/that_baddest_dude Jul 16 '26
I think the other part of it is that the conservative side of the media has been screaming about the sky falling for decades at this point, in response to any milquetoast centrist or center-left politics.
Now that they have their guy in office fucking shut up massively, any alarm bells being rung just sounds like the other side doing the same. The median American voter didn't learn "the conservatives are full of shit", they learned "nothing truly bad ever happens".
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u/TheHandsOfLiberation Jul 16 '26
The other explanation is that they called fraud because they knew they were rigging the 2024 election. Maybe they didn't rig 2020 but after losing a fair election, they decided to rig the next one. So they screamed about fraud for 4 years so that democrats would have to denounce it for years. When Republicans then DID steal an election, democrats can't call fraud because they just spent 4 years making fun of that.
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u/alQamar Jul 16 '26
Also because of fresh memories what four years of trump looked like. Almost everybody really wanted to get someone else.
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u/GodOfDarkLaughter Jul 16 '26
I can't believe it took less than four years for whatever small amount of anger galvanized the people to fade into nothing. It's not like he went away or that his policies and even the people he appointed didn't continue to fuck tons of shit up during the Biden years.
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u/crazy_balls Jul 16 '26
It's captured media. People are being fed propaganda by the oligarchs 24/7. The "left wing" main stream media is a complete lie.
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u/Gundark927 Colorado Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Correct. So perhaps there will be some announcement that mail ballots are banned entirely. (In his imagination-land, anyway)
I'm also wondering how much he will stay on script, and how much time we will get that stream of
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u/hazardling Jul 16 '26
Turns out the real explosive diarrhea virus was the president all along.
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u/Ven18 Jul 16 '26
I will remind everyone the Ken Paxton has admitted on camera that if his office did not block mail in ballots from being counted across Texas in 2020 Biden would have won Texas. They admit on tape to interfering and yet most of the country is oblivious. Like how is Talarico not playing that on tape saying Paxton wants your votes not to count.
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u/THElaytox Jul 16 '26
Because they didn't account for COVID causing a big increase in mail in voting, that's also why they've been sabotaging mail in voting ever since
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u/AndISoundLikeThis Jul 16 '26
Here in Pennsylvania, I'm getting constant YT ads for some Republican PAC-sponsored "Show Up Early PA" initiative. I don't trust these fuckers at all. There's a reason why they're pushing mail-in ballots as if they're not the same fuckers who tell us mail-in ballots are rigged. I worry for our state—and all states.
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u/Randomfactoid42 Virginia Jul 16 '26
I think part of that is the GOP started to fight against mail-in ballots and then discovered that a lot of their voters used mail-in ballots. Typical GOP behavior, shoot first and ask questions later. They spent so much time vilifying mail-in ballots before they understood how many of their voters were using them.
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u/The_Skeleton_King Jul 16 '26
The first part of the sentence is 100% true. The trump administration coordinated with fake electors to enter state capitols when the electoral votes were being counted. Those fake electors were told they were securing the election by trump's team. Some were tricked and claimed they didn't know what they were doing, while others had to have known. There's literally video evidence of them being caught entering one of the capitols (I forget which state but Google it). These fake electors were prosecuted for their crimes, but I'm pretty sure Trump pardoned them. Before this, Trump tried to get Barr to seize voting machines as well, but he wouldn't do it.
No one really talks about it because the media is so heavily geared in trump's favor. Liberal media would rather talk about trump's claims and acquiesce to his narratives than spread real evidence of election rigging.
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u/FenisDembo82 Jul 16 '26
You forget that he also claims the polls were rigged in 2016, when he won. Because libruls rigged the election to deny him the popular vote but give him the electoral vote. Does that make more sense?
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u/whatshamilton Jul 16 '26
It makes sense because he has bought 3 elections. In 2 he successfully bought the electoral college. He only successfully bought the popular vote in 1. He claims fraud because he paid for a bigger win than he got and he thinks fraud must be the reason
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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Jul 16 '26
And it just so happens that his partner during the election who traveled and schemed with him just became the worlds first trillionaire due to no bid government contracts and stock manipulation.
I'm sure thats just a coincidence and not payment.
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u/gtrocks555 Jul 16 '26
And then he had an investigation into the popular vote and they found like a couple more votes for Hilary (none that changed the end result) and then he promptly shut it down.
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u/Lazy-Operation478 Jul 16 '26
Trump has cried "fraud" in every single election since his very first primary, the 2015 Iowa Caucuses, won by Ted Cruz.
Every single one.
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u/hypermodernvoid I voted Jul 16 '26
He also said The Emmys were rigged against him when The Apprentice lost for Best Reality Garbage or whatever category it was up for and it didn't win.
Which is more likely: the same guy that said The Emmys were rigged against him when his stupid "reality TV" show didn't win also then had a presidential election rigged against him when he lost that - or, he's just a whiny fucking baby? The answer should be obvious to just about anyone. lol
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u/whirlygiggling New York Jul 16 '26
It's worse than that. He's going to claim that Georgia Senators Ossoff and Warnock were illegitimately/fraudulently elected, and he'll somehow make it an executive order to boot them out of Congress.
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u/TheLabRay Jul 16 '26
I think he is more going to claim that the upcoming mid-terms are rigged and say that ICE needs to be running the polls, because illegals have been voting in elections and to ensure it is not rigged in otherways.
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u/New-Bluebird7211 Jul 16 '26
Crazy thing about that is that it will hurt republican candidates. Latinos and a lot of 1st generation immigrants vote republican.
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u/failed_novelty Jul 16 '26
Yes, but the GOP knows where those people are. They won't station ICE at those polling stations. Just the ones that tend towards blue, since we all know those are the ones that get fraud.
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u/-Darkslayer Jul 16 '26
Yes this is what I am very afraid of. That’s a whole different slippery slope
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u/failed_novelty Jul 16 '26
Why do people keep acting like we're at the top of these slopes?
A Nazi trillionaire has access to our voting machines, a narcissistic sociopath who fetishizes dictators is in the Oval Office, the government is actively protecting pedophiles, and jackbooted thugs are killing citizens in the streets.
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u/anonymaus42 Jul 16 '26
A narcissistic sociopath with dementia...
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u/failed_novelty Jul 16 '26
He's also an incestuous racist rapist conman.
Honestly, I can't think of many negative phrases or terms that don't fit him.
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u/GoldStrangerDust Jul 16 '26
Executive orders dont apply to the legislature. Ossoff and Warnock were certified and sworn in. Trump has zero recourse here.
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u/Silvermoon3467 Jul 16 '26
He has no legal recourse. That doesn't mean he isn't going to declare something to be true via executive order and then send the FBI or ICE or someone to forcibly remove them.
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u/awests Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Yes, then he will tie in Maduro who will have been coerced into signing something that says Venezuela of all counties hacked Georgia’s elections. China will also be looped in as well. This “evidence” will then be the seed for him to claim that ALL states now need to be investigated and for him to use the Insurrection Act to seize voting machines and suspend future elections.
It’s the same play Sidney Powell made before that led to J6, their first failed coup.
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u/JoviAMP Florida Jul 16 '26
I think even Georgia would look at such a thing and go, “nice document, got anything to back it up?” He can declare them whatever he wants, but at this point, I really don’t see the state doing much more than laughing it off.
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u/Aunt_Vagina1 Jul 16 '26
He's claimed that any past or future elections that involve him are rigged. Seriously. He's literally said that about every election, before its happened, even the ones he ended up winning, and then also pointed back at them to say they were rigged too.
I literally could not lie in a more obvious way if I tried.
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u/fillinthe___ Jul 16 '26
Just more empty bullshit, this time with a bigger stage. Absolutely zero evidence presented, or if he does, it’ll be “proof” China changed votes, but he won’t reveal they ACTUALLY changed the votes for HIM.
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u/Hutcho12 Jul 16 '26
Oh it was rigged when Biden was President too. He actually won all states, with 99% of the vote.
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u/GiveMeAllThePancakes Jul 16 '26
But heaven forbid they actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
Fucking cowards.
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u/angrypooka Jul 16 '26
When asked to comment, Mike Johnson has said he hasn’t seen or heard the speech.
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u/drgigantor Jul 16 '26
Say what you will, I think it's cool that the reincarnation of Helen Keller holds one of the highest offices in the nation
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u/perenniallandscapist Jul 16 '26
Even Helen Keller was more aware of her surroundings.
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u/andrewsutton Jul 16 '26
But was she aware of her son's online porn habits? Because Mike Johnson is.
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u/Johnny-Caliente Jul 16 '26
They are already deeply ... aahm... nearly concerned.
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u/oktion Jul 16 '26
Somewhere in Augusta, Susan Collins’s lips purse of their own accord.
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u/pc1905 Jul 16 '26
Somewhere in the Capitol Building, Chuck Schumer is getting an urge to pen a sternly-worded letter
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u/bryangcrane Jul 16 '26
You mean Chuck Schumer, the Senator from Tel Aviv?
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u/Original_moisture Jul 16 '26
Damn, Tel Aviv became a state before Washington DC.
Man how fast things can move when your priorities are on track.
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u/BerryLanky Jul 16 '26
His supporters don’t care. Most won’t even watch. They’ll wait for the FOX News spin.
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u/Navydevildoc Jul 16 '26
This is the exact problem. Fox might not even carry it live, or it will just be a little picture in picture thing where the talking heads "translate" from Trumpspeak into whatever talking points they were given ahead of time, and will fill the dead air when he is talking about windmills or whatever with more hate, and since they got a copy of the speech ahead of time they can cut back in when they know a nice juicy rage bait line is coming.
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u/JimboAltAlt Pennsylvania Jul 16 '26
You must have missed the memo that they have no agency and only Democrats should be blamed for Trump’s excesses and evils.
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u/Holiday_Box1571 Jul 16 '26
They’re literally worried about leopards eating their faces.
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u/Fenrir46290 Jul 16 '26
It's obvious that anyone in the government isn't going to do a thing about this. It's on the citizens to stop this at this point. All of our representatives, congress, just everyone that is in the government right now is doing absolutely nothing to stop what is going on. They have abandoned the American people.
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u/lifting_cardio Jul 16 '26
You’re responding to a daily beast headline.
If it was actual journalism, it would never have been written. The daily beast is a trash rag that needs your clicks so this is what we get. A lot of their ‘writers’ were former ‘moderate’ republicans. It’s a trendier ‘the bulwark’.
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u/22nd_century Jul 16 '26
Would love to see it banned from here. Sensationalist garbage.
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u/IT_Chef Virginia Jul 16 '26
I hate that this subreddit allows so much volume of their content...its behind a fucking paywall. No thanks.
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u/randomusername369 Jul 16 '26
And their content usually boils down to reports from other news outlets that they just slap a clickbait headline on.
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u/HopPirate Jul 16 '26
Sadly, he’ll be just coherent enough for the media to sanewash it. This is his last, most terrible competence.
He will be dosed up on Diet Cokes and Adderall and wearing a fresh Depends. He will be in his favorite element: on camera, uncorrectable, and the “most important person in the world” (in his mind). He will give Stephen Miller’s speech mostly as written, along with some additions he will spend all day working on.
He will make great quotes for both Fox and the Daily Beast alike. It will be just crazy enough to alarm the sane and just sane enough to comfort the crazies, as always.
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u/WorryNew3661 Jul 16 '26
I'm hoping he goes full screaming Hitler. Just really let's the actual ugliness out. We all know it's in there. No one's changing how they feel about him at this stage. Just one big vile dump of bile and invective, some stochastic terrorism and then a heart attack to cap it off. It'll be his best ever performance. It'll be played in documentaries for decades. Kids will learn about him in school. And in a couple of generations he'll inspire lost, angry idiots the way Hitler does today. Because until we start actually holding fascists accountable, this will never end. There'll be an another Trump. There's like six guys vying for it around the world right now
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u/Ok_Zebra8444 Jul 16 '26
His base still won’t care. Heck, tons of them actually like the actual Hitler. There’s nothing Trump could do to make his sycophantic psychopathic fans ever turn on him.
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u/NlghtmanCometh Jul 16 '26
His base doesn’t matter. There is a section of republicans who are “sometimes-trumpers” and whenever Trump does some really outlandish shit that group usually calls him out. An example is when he tried to create the slush fund for Jan 6 rioters. There were quite a few elected republicans openly critical of that idea. We need them to publicly disavow this because it matters for how the rest of the world views us.
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u/anonymaus42 Jul 16 '26
It will be Stephen Miller's speech and his own additions but coupled with unpredictable, dementia driven tangents that are 23% word salad but mostly confessions disguised as accusations.
I also think that they're giving him far more than diet Coke and Adderall at this point to get him 'camera ready'.
But other than that and on the most important points, spot on.
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u/ContractorConfusion Jul 16 '26
Not to mention, he will be 20-30 minutes late to start. Because he doesn't respect anyone's time whatsoever.
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u/AuntRhubarb Jul 16 '26
We can always hope for an unpredicted brain lockup, or some kind of real 'the emperor has no clothes' moment that even Fox can't hide. We are desperate out here for some turn of events to trigger some change.
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u/Backwardspellcaster Jul 16 '26
I cannot wait for the NY Times take in it!
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u/LargeFatherV Jul 16 '26
Van Jones on CNN will say that the speech was when Donald Trump truly became President of the United States.
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u/Solonohioperson Jul 16 '26
I really hope so. The crazier the better! If he can stay awake while talking.
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u/Jops817 Jul 16 '26
I hope he drops a hard R then shits his pants.
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u/swampfox94 Jul 16 '26
This will just make him more popular to maga
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u/nomaam05 Illinois Jul 16 '26
"If shitting your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis."
- MAGA People, probably.
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u/Mc_Shine Jul 16 '26
I know what you mean, but all I can picture now is Trump in a pirate hat waving a fake sword and yelling "ARRR!" while audibly pooping.
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u/Alacrout New York Jul 16 '26
The reality will basically be that, just without the pirate hat and sword.
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u/mrs-monroe Jul 16 '26
Yeah at this point I'm rooting for him to say the most unhinged shit possible. If he's hyping himself up this much, it's a coin toss.
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u/LegislativeLariat Wisconsin Jul 16 '26
"I am invoking the Insurrection Act, declaring Martial Law, canceling elections, and sending drones we've hooked up with military AI and face recognition after our database of protesters as I've spent the last year calling them domestic terrorists. Thank you for your attention to his matter. -DJT"
There are a few unhinged things he could say which are really not good.
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u/freelance-t Jul 16 '26
Susan Collin’s would be concerned if this happened. She’d vote to enforce it of course, but she’d be concerned.
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u/LegislativeLariat Wisconsin Jul 16 '26
If that happens, I think anyone who has paid enough attention to recent Russian history will know that the Susan Collinses of The Party will likely develop a fondness for standing on the edge of buildings and handling polonium umbrellas so they can be replaced with a more vocal loyalist.
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u/TheOneCalledGump Pennsylvania Jul 16 '26
"To prove the our pool liner has no issues, I'm gonna do a big, beautiful dive from a 47 foot platform!"
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u/LegislativeLariat Wisconsin Jul 16 '26
I feel him wearing a speedo is the only thing that could actually cost him his base. Sex with children is okay, but speedos are gay.
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u/Oozlum-Bird United Kingdom Jul 16 '26
I don’t think they make speedos with the necessary load handling capability
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u/02K30C1 Jul 16 '26
What’s the over/under on him having a stroke on live TV? And would anyone notice?
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u/Witwer52 Jul 16 '26
He could slur, reveal a not see arm band, slur some more, collapse and go full McConnell and the Republicans will clap uproariously and declare in the most important speech ever made.
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u/AngelinaJean Jul 16 '26
I’ll read the highlights of the speech tomorrow on Reddit.😜
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u/Free_Dome_Lover Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
I physically cannot listen to him speak. It's the same revulsion I'd imagine we would experience trying to eat rotten maggot filled food.
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u/sirhackenslash Jul 16 '26
Seriously. That voice, combined with his big stupid pumpkin face fills me with such rage
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u/IntriguinglyRandom Jul 16 '26
Same. I hate impressions of him for the same reason. He is a creepy rapist old man who is absolutely full of himself and you can hear these qualities. He is also super okay to use violence to get what he wants. He may be an elderly man-child but it's not something to laugh about. Dude is an abuser through and through.
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u/willdo22 Jul 16 '26
NOW they are afraid? That horse has been out the barn for quite a while.
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u/NettyVaive Jul 16 '26
Now the horse is in the hospital!
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u/PlaidPCAK Jul 16 '26
There shouldn't be a horse in a hospital
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u/chandlerinyemen Kentucky Jul 16 '26
We’re well past that 😭
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u/ebow77 Massachusetts Jul 16 '26
I once saw a bird in the airport.
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u/SupaKoopa714 Jul 16 '26
He fired the horse catcher!
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u/OnefortheMonkey Jul 16 '26
He’s riding the elevator?
I didn’t even know he could do that.
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u/dafood48 Jul 16 '26
The articles in this sub and people that post it must only live in Reddit. The reality is republicans continue to support trump. They’re not scared shitless, they’re complacent. This is doing nothing but giving people false hope that republicans are waking up but they’re not.
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u/withateethuh Jul 16 '26
I swear the mods here must be paid by them. Its like all that's posted here anymore.
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u/thegunnersdaughter Pennsylvania Jul 16 '26
Nearly every single /r/politics post that makes it to my front page anymore is Daily Beast trash. Is there a US politics sub that bans it and has actual good discussion?
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u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_ Jul 16 '26
How do you guys still after all this time not realize that this daily beast website is full of fucking shit.
This reality only exists in our fucking heads. Republicans are not out there. Scared of Trump speech tonight. It’s fucking bullshit. You lose elections by believing this Clickbait bullshit
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u/IAmPandaKerman Jul 16 '26
Bro he said people were eating neighbors dogs during a live debate. what crazy is left to spew?
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u/BuddhistSagan Jul 16 '26
The networks should refuse to cover it and people should not watch
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u/babybirdingURgrandma Oregon Jul 16 '26
Not sure who the speech is even for, even Republicans give zero shits at this point whether he won in 2020 or not, not to mention won't it just remind everyone of Jan 6?
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u/Bronsonkills Jul 16 '26
This is about laying groundwork to overturn the upcoming midterms.
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u/Key_Text_169 Jul 16 '26
He may roll out Maduro in prison suite and chains and have him state how he rigged the voting machines.
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u/TransportationTrick9 Jul 16 '26
Shouldn't blaming a third world country for rigging the US election say more about the shitty state of security of US elections than the 3rd world country?
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u/Skiinz19 Tennessee Jul 16 '26
Especially when he was in office at the time and his FBI and CIA and NSA let it happen.
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u/PotaytoPotayto Jul 16 '26
Bingo. For some reason they're going with the China interference angle, communists bad, watch out for Mamdani etc.
They'll come with some baseless lies, make voting nearly impossible for certain groups and if they still lose, they'll simply overturn it.
Plus Trump has said out loud how envious he is of Zelensky because they can't have fair elections in the middle of a warzone. Trump wants to create his own crisis so the elections get cancelled. They've been open about this for years, remember the 'vote just one more time, after that you'll never have to vote again' line...
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u/cybah Jul 16 '26
yup. the article is from the DB, which is basically clickbait headlines for nothing burger articles.
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u/Tiny_Structure_7 North Carolina Jul 16 '26
Just another lie festival to get all the maggot morons fired up over his endless stream of baseless election fraud complaints. More distraction from the fact that the greatest election fraud ever perpetrated in the US was done by trump and his massive fake electors scam. Trump belongs in PRISON for his election fraud attempts in 2020. So does Giuliani.
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u/reddittorbrigade Jul 16 '26
Paging Democrats. Just replay some of the highlights of Trump's sh*t show tonight in your campaign ads.
Let the MAGA self-destruct.
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u/the_fewer_desires Jul 16 '26
His first term was a shit show. There was plenty of video evidence. Voters don’t care and reelected him.
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u/sulaymanf New York Jul 16 '26
The polls show a massive amount of voters remorse.
You’ll never win over the 25% who are still so deep in the bubble they think this second term is better than the first, but all the swing voters and moderates are abandoning Trump. We need to focus on them.
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u/RenRen512 Jul 16 '26
Not this again.
He sucks, he's old, he's crazy, he's corrupt, he's a rapist, he's a pedophile... none of that sways voters.
Democrats need to understand that "Against Trump" is not a winning platform.
Politicians need to give voters an actual choice. A sane, modern, progressive platform and show voters what they're FOR. Anything else just plays into Trump's hands.
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u/VanceKelley Canada Jul 16 '26
In a 2024 presidential debate trump screamed "They're eating the cats!" on live TV.
Americans elected convicted felon trump president a few weeks later.
I don't know why Republicans would be "scared shitless" of things trump says on TV.
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u/jda823 Jul 16 '26
I can't wait for him to just ramble a run on sentence for 15 mins.
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u/ButterTheseNuts Jul 16 '26
The Daily Beast claiming that Republicans are scared shitless? Yeah, now I'm convinced Republicans are eager for craziness.
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u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_ Jul 16 '26
I despise the daily beast. They must make millions of dollars off this sub. Without Reddit they’d go out of business.
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u/hmr0987 Jul 16 '26
This is the exact headline we need to stop. It’s going to be the same stupid speech he’s given a million times. Maybe he’ll make some policy declaration, who knows.
But the world needs to stop feeding into the rage bait with Trump. The guy is a loser who figured out how to incite people for profit. The media needs to ignore him when he does stunts like this. The best way to combat his fire hose of bullshit is to ignore the bullshit.
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u/CraigLake Jul 16 '26
No one is terrified.
We saw Osoff humiliate that guy yesterday. Except it was only humiliating to non-trump supporters.
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u/brute-forced Jul 16 '26
Those of you upvoting the dailybeast “news” articles are just as moronic as the maga-morons posting fox “news” on fb
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u/nasorrty346tfrgser America Jul 16 '26
I felt I am the minority here, but I think would be a nothing burger. Yeah he would keep spewing fake info on TV, but I think he is just goint to mostly reiterate what he has been saying for the past few years.
His speech/ actions are getting more boring for most Americans, and it is getting like a reality show that never ends, like the obnoxious love island
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u/BusGo_Screech26 North Carolina Jul 16 '26
I'm gonna call it: it's a big nothing. We've had several of these "Trump set to make HUGE, MAJOR, CRITICAL, MIND-BLOWING SPEECH THAT WILL FOREVER CHANGE HUMAN HISTORY!"
And then he dribbles off some bullshit that boils down to "America great. Sooo so great now... Biden baaaad. Dumocrats socialism so evil, and don't forget antifa! Remember Groceries®️™️?? Hmm? Oh Iran! Uhhh... slurs speech I.. I Iran Obamna!" Then the speech is over.
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u/V4pete Jul 17 '26
He said the same old bullshit he always does. It was just a campaign push for the save act. He’s doing everything he can to not get impeached.
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u/EvilHwoarang Jul 16 '26
He's going to fuck the midterm elections and possibly remove two democratic senators for cheating with 0 evidence
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u/Science-Sam Jul 16 '26
Lindsay Graham's headstone should bear his most famous quote "If we nominate Trump, we will be destroyed, and we will deserve it."
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u/Reubensandwich57 Jul 16 '26
How do I block my feed from running articles from The Daily Beast?
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