In a Christmas message to his followers Monday, former President Donald Trump said he hopes supporters of “Electric Car Lunacy” would “ROT IN HELL.”
Trump’s Monday afternoon Truth Social post continued a theme he had been developing with several other posts since Christmas Eve, attacking Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting two criminal cases against him.
The frontrunner of the 2024 presidential race for the Republican Party nomination added a missive against “THUGS,” which he said were more “evil” and “sick” than all world leaders. In the grammatically confusing post, Trump also appeared to attack Israel, which Trump lumped in with Iran, as well as both Russia and Ukraine.
Since it’s Christmas: Jesus wanted a lot of people to rot in hell too… but at least he was nice about it.
Please rot in hell (endearing)
That’s why Trump doesn’t have Jesus’ way with words.
Trump:
Included also are World Leaders, both good and bad, but none of which are as evil and ‘sick’ as the THUGS we have inside our Country who, with their Open Borders, INFLATION, Afghanistan Surrender, Green New Scam, High Taxes, No Energy Independence, Woke Military, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Iran, All Electric Car Lunacy, and so much more, are looking to destroy our once great USA. MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Jesus:
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
See? They both say “everyone who doesn’t believe what I believe rots in Hell.” Jesus just put it better.
I’m sure if you wait 2000 more years, Trump will sound sane and coherent as well.
Why…?
You don’t even have to wait that long. The gospels were written decades after Jesus was supposedly executed. That means they were a totally inaccurate record of anything he ever did or said, and were almost certainly cleaned up to make him look better. So for all we know, he was as incoherent as Trump and Paul made a lot of edits.
OK…but there were many witnesses and writings of him spread all over the region. That’s a lot of written accounts in many unknown places to edit.
That’s nonsense. The first writings about Jesus that weren’t in the Bible were Tacitus and Josephus almost a century later.
I mean Paul definitely made some edits to the overall thesis, dude fucking sucked
According to the church.
For example, in one of the works dismissed as heretical and eventually buried in a jar because even possessing it became a death sentence, the message is very different from the “give everything you have to God and church and await the end of the world” that was being thrown around by the early church:
Jesus said, “The messengers and the prophets will come to you and give you what belongs to you. You, in turn, give them what you have, and say to yourselves, ‘When will they come and take what belongs to them?’”
There were groups that were universalist (i.e. everyone gets salvation as a participation prize), but there’s not much money in that - why would you give the church what you have if what they are offering you is already rightfully yours?
Elsewhere this text has a parable that seems to liken the concept of salvation to a treasure buried in a field that we inherit, but don’t realize it’s there, so the field gets sold off to someone else who discovers the treasure and starts lending it out at interest (which is a bitingly apt commentary on the notion of tithing).
Miraculously this version of Jesus’s theology ends up not being endorsed by the people who built St Peter’s, despite the attitude being more in line with the earliest redactional layers of the canonical gospels too.
I guess Trump is making the Two Minutes of Hate thing a reality…
Hmmm. Vote for a guy that is actually serious about the job (Joe) or this treasonous, wannabe dictator piece of shit? HOW ARE WE STILL EVEN TALKING ABOUT THIS?
We aren’t.
Well, I think the response to this could end up being “Electric car supporters wish Trump ‘rots in hell’ in Mastodon Christmas message” which could sound better here.
If the GOP ever runs a Kardashian its fucking over for America.
That’s all they need, a sufficiently charismatic reality tv star.
President Kim Kardashian. Has a nice ring to it. Also sounds like a good title for a final chapter. Could they sell it? You bet your sweet republic they could.
Sponsored by Exxon
Eat shit, asshole.
Without context this is my favorite kind of comment, because I immediately thought of an anthropomorphic asshole sitting down to a nice dinner of steaming hot shit and it was hilarious.
But then I remembered Trump has a realistic shot at winning this election and I just got really sad.
Trump never fails to do something completely inappropriate for holidays. What a miserable person. Also hilarious considering how hard Elron has been trying to suck up to the fascist conservative wing.
The way he said “Russia/Ukraine” and then “Israel/Iran” makes it seem that he thinks Israel is in a war with Iran, which isn’t totally wrong but also not correct at this point, thankfully.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a Christmas message to his followers Monday, former President Donald Trump said he hopes supporters of “Electric Car Lunacy” would “ROT IN HELL.”
The frontrunner of the 2024 presidential race for the Republican Party nomination added a missive against “THUGS,” which he said were more “evil” and “sick” than all world leaders.
“Included also are World Leaders, both good and bad, but none of which are as evil and ‘sick’ as the THUGS we have inside our Country who, with their Open Borders, INFLATION, Afghanistan Surrender, Green New Scam, High Taxes, No Energy Independence, Woke Military, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Iran, All Electric Car Lunacy, and so much more, are looking to destroy our once great USA.”
In September, he called them a “hoax” and said President Joe Biden’s tax credits for electric cars and trucks made in the United States amounted to “a transition to hell.”
Trump on Monday also attacked the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and promised to “come up with a much better, and less expensive, alternative,” something he failed to do during his four years as president.
He posted a video of the White House’s holiday decorations overlaid with an audio track of him and First Lady Jill Biden reading the poem “The Night Before Christmas” by Clement Clark Moore.
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I had to read the article after the bot insinuated that the White House video was Trump and Jill… bad bot.
Is he pretending to be anti Israel now cause he saw how support for them is going for Biden? Cause Trump even moved the embassy and is a big supporter of Netanyahu, so it’s kinda silly he’s now acting like he’s against what’s going on.
Trump is for whatever he thinks will get him elected based on the audience he is talking to at any given moment.
His true goal is to become a dictator.
No.
as the THUGS we have inside our Country who, with their Open Borders, … Woke Military, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Iran, … and so much more, are looking to destroy our once great USA.
That’s not really anti-Israel.
Russia/Ukraine followed by Israel/Iran looks like it’s suggesting Israel is in a proxy war with Iran. But the message there is about as clear as mud. I think he’s saying we should be staying out of both Russia’s war with Ukraine and Gaza? Maybe?
Probably saying that neither conflict would have happened if he was re-elected/“the dems didn’t steal the election”.
“Included also are World Leaders, both good and bad, but none of which are as evil and ‘sick’ as the THUGS we have inside our Country who, with their Open Borders, INFLATION, Afghanistan Surrender, Green New Scam, High Taxes, No Energy Independence, Woke Military, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Iran, All Electric Car Lunacy, and so much more, are looking to destroy our once great USA.” Trump posted. “MAY THEY ROT IN HELL.”
Versus
Biden, who is running with little competition for the Democratic party presidential nomination in 2024, struck a different tone with his Christmas message. He posted a video of the White House’s holiday decorations overlaid with an audio track of him and First Lady Jill Biden reading the poem “The Night Before Christmas” by Clement Clark Moore.
Sigh.
We are so fucked.
And before anyone just indicate “Oh but they’re in the White House”. Let’s not forget Melania Trump’s perspective on Christmas at the White House in 2020.
Who gives a fuck about Christmas stuff and decoration? But I have to do it!
Also something Trump pointed out in the speech.
Afghanistan Surrender
Buddy Trump, you ordered the troops out of there. I mean it was “so bold™” that FoxNews was liberally sucking what can only be scientifically classified as Trump’s penis. Biden was just following up with the order that you gave. WTF _ LOL?!
Biden was just following up with the order that you gave. WTF _ LOL?!
The thing you need to remember, and it’s hard because constant coverage has made us grow used to it, is that he’s nuts.
No energy independence? Doesn’t the US extract more oil than they ever have?
Right winger word salad
The Fridge vs. The Diaper.
Round 1.
FIGHT.
First they came for the African Americans, and I said nothing, for I was not African American.
Then, they came for the LGBTQ community, and I said nothing, for I was not LGBTQ.
Then they came for… The EV owners? I said nothing, because this was just getting bizzare.
Soon Elon will ban his Twitter account again.
edit: also,
No he won’t. Elon loves him, and what the hell is Twitter?
You know, Twitter, the social media site later called X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.
Oh, right. It’s Xwixxer now.
The domain says Twitter. It’s fucking Twitter.
It’ll always be twitter. Just like Facebook will always be Facebook.
But Facebook is still called Facebook
Originally it was “the Facebook” but yeah, x is stupid as a name.
They’re Meta now.
Meta is the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc.
Yeah. They’re still called Facebook to me. Don’t care what they changed their name to.
I’m that way about X. I still call it twitter.
The company, but we’re talking about the site/app here
Company is, the product isn’t.
I think they mean ten
It’s a microblog social media platform that tried and failed to rebrand to “X”. Unfortunately for Twitter leadership, the brand of Twitter is too strong to be suddenly changed like that.
Why do Americans love so much to divide its people for the most arbitrary reasons?
It’s easier to control people when they’re in an emotional state.
Divide and Conquer.
We have a two party system.
We have the right, which is gradually shifting further and further conservative (really, let’s be honest now, at this point they aren’t conserving shit, they want regression). They market their platform primarily through fear.
Then there is the left. It’s the big tent party and has also gradually been shifting right to the point where the critical mass of the party appears slightly right of center on the global scale. They market their platform primarily through empathy.
I’m not saying which way is right, but I do have a good feeling of which approach is more beneficial to society and humanity as a whole.
Statistically, there are significantly more people who place themselves on the left. Which makes sense, they are the big tent party after all. But that doesn’t matter in our federal elections, because most of them congregate in smaller population centers (and this helps with the empathy angle, they are regularly exposed to people of all walks of life, while primarily rural conservatives interact very little outside their comparatively small social sphere). The voting system gives two votes to every state, plus a share of the 435 that gets divided up based on the states population. Then most states give all of their votes to whoever won the popular vote in their state.
Because of how the states tally their votes and break up their voting districts (because the party in charge gets to draw the maps), even a majority of people voting for one party can, and does, result in the state determining that the candidate with fewer total votes wins because they had won more districts. CGP Grey had a great video on this years ago, but using anthropomorphized animals as the presidential candidates, and talked about the strengths and weaknesses of our first-past-the-post voting system and on gerrymandering (the term for advantageously manipulating voting district maps).
Regression is conservatism, always has been. They haven’t changed into regressives, its always been a core goal. When conservatism fails to maintain (conserve) an important social or economic hierarchy, they work to restore it (or regress). It’s why nothing is ever settled with them.
You seem to be conflating “the left” with the Democrats. The Democrats are not particularly leftist. The political compass doesn’t move just because the Democrats do that is like saying “The car drives East so North becomes East.” It’s wiser to treat the political compass is more of a fixed set of cardinal directions. Leftists and Right Wingers exist outside of parties.
Neither right nor left are parties. So when describing parties stances it’s way more accurate to use the party names.
There are a lot of leftists in America, you just don’t have a leftist centric party because the way things are established running one would likely cause a spoiler vote. It’s something of a sore point amongst leftists that the First past the post system keeps them from voting their hearts or running a candidate so representing the “slightly more left but actually still right wing” candidates as “left” isn’t exactly great.
*Conservatives.
It’s the conservatives doing it. It always has been, it always will be. No need for enlightened centrism here. And don’t pretend they don’t do it outside the US because I follow world news.
It’s a side effect of the different circling mentalities. The right circle the wagons, the last form a circular firing squad.
The right defaults to defending the in group at all costs. The worst thing you can do to persuade someone on the right is to attack their core beliefs.
The left swings the other way. The left wing is a swarm of loosely aligned smaller groups. When attacked, they attempt to purge the issue. Unfortunately this can quickly turn into an internal witch hunt. In moderation, it makes the left’s ideas better, and improves the group. Unfortunately, the right have found it great fun to prod and abuse.
Hey, remember compassionate conservatism?
You’re 100% right. The conservative groups always try to attract two types of people: nostalgic idiots pining for a past that never existed and braindead idiots who are easy to convince that one or more minority groups are responsible taking one or more things away from them. Sometimes these idiots overlap.
