And You'll Never Have To Vote Again

Your next vote might be your last vote

Before someone shot at Donald Trump’s ear, he promised he’d be a dictator “for one day.” He called his enemies “vermin.” He said the press was the “enemy of the American people.” He talked about deporting 20 million people from this nation. He made many more references to dictators. He lavished praise on authoritarian leaders like Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping, Rodrigo Duterte, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Viktor Orban (who recently visited MAGA-Lardo), and of course his favorite, Vladimir Putin. To this day, he’s never said anything critical about Putin.

Naturally, many in the media and Democrats compared Trump’s dictator talk to dictators. Then someone shot at him and Trumpers blamed it on the left and media for comparing Trump to Hitler. Yes, the people who’ve been calling us libtards, groomers, pedophiles, and snowflakes are crying about the left’s hateful rhetoric.

And then Trump made more dictator talk. In fact, it was last Friday.

At the end of his speech to fundamentalist Christian zealots last Friday in West Palm Beach, Trump said, “Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. … You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.”

Saying it four times, Trump emphasized that we won’t have to vote ever again. It’s very hard to misinterpret what he said.

Rep. Adam Schiff tweeted the video and stated, “This year democracy is on the ballot, and if we are to save it, we must vote against authoritarianism. Here Trump helpfully reminds us that the alternative is never having the chance to vote again.”

Rep. Pramila Jayapal described Trump’s comments as “terrifying.”

Rep. Dan Goldman said, “The only way ‘you won’t have to vote anymore’ is if Donald Trump becomes a dictator.”

Exactly.

Donald Trump has been winking and hinting about becoming a dictator but sometimes, he says the quiet parts out loud. He literally said we won’t have to vote anymore if he’s elected.

Trump is promising to remove the burden of voting, but also remove his burden of campaigning and asking the American people to put him in office.

We have become so desensitized to Trump’s outrageous comments, that most of us have overlooked that even if Trump wins and doesn’t destroy democracy over the next four years, the Constitution will prevent him from running again in 2028. Does Trump know this?

Here’s an easy prediction: If Trump does win and takes both chambers of Congress with him, there will be a motion to repeal the 22nd Amendment.

Republicans have been trying for years, often succeeding, in removing the burden of voting from Black people and other minorities.

The Trump Campaign argued that Trump wasn’t promising to get rid of voting, but to unite the country. Yes, we’ll be so united that we won’t want to vote again. For Republicans, uniting the country means we give up our beliefs and agree with them on everything.

Steven Cheung, a spokesgoon for the Trump Campaign elaborated and said that Trump was talking about “uniting this country and bringing prosperity to every American, as opposed to the divisive political environment that has sowed so much division and even resulted in an assassination attempt.”

Does Cheung not understand that his explanation isn’t an explanation? It seems we were pretty united during World War II, but we still had elections.

What he means is that elections are divisive and we can eliminate all this hate and disagreement by not voting anymore and trusting Dictator Trump with everything.

Republicans are always telling us not to take what Trump says at face value.

When Trump said he wanted to “terminate” the Constitution, the word “terminate” didn’t actually mean terminate. It could be since we’re still waiting to know what “covfefe” means.

When Trump said he’ll be a “dictator for a day,” he didn’t mean “dictator.” He just meant a guy who gets to decide on everything, make whatever laws he wants, and isn’t to be questioned. Also, in Trump time, one day equals four years. It’s like weight and height. For Trump, 250 lbs. equals 215, and five foot ten is 6 feet and two inches. Also, tiny fingers are huge fingers.

When Trump said “vermin,” just like Hitler said, Trump never heard of this Hitler fellow. What did he do?

When Trump said he’ll use his second term to seek vengeance, he was only talking about enemies of our nation, and don’t you worry about who they are.

It’s like when Trump said Mexico was sending us “rapists and murderers,” don’t take that the wrong way. He was only talking about Mexicans.

And when Trump said Mexico was going to pay for the wall, again, you misinterpreted. What he meant was, you’re going to pay for the wall.

And when Trump said he’s going to drain the swamp, “drain” meant restock.

When we point out that Project 25 is a plan to destroy democracy and install the “next Republican” president as a dictator, the Trump Campaign says, “We don’t know those people,” even though several of the writers are former and future Trump staffers.

The people who are telling us not to take Trump’s dictator talk are the same assholes who describe the white nationalist MAGA terrorists who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2020, as “tourists,” “peaceful protesters,” “patriots,” and now “hostages.”

If we’re not supposed to take Trump’s words literally when he talks about being a dictator, torching the Constitution, and eliminating elections, then how are we supposed to take him literally when he says, “Make America great again?” By the way, the word “great” actually means white.

Democracy is on the ballot… and so is fascism.

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