OFFICIAL LRC President Donald Trump SECOND TERM Thread

It’s becoming very clear that the Trump admin and its surrogates like Johnson are very uncomfortable with the no kings rally tomorrow. They are in a full court press trying to categorize it as Marxist, hate America, anti capitalism, Antifa rally.

This is a direct violation of basic political spin class 101. Which would be to just ignore it in an attempt to make it look like a big nothingburger.

To me this indicates one of two things:

1. they know large scale demonstrations are very damaging to their authoritarian plans.

2. This one is more fearful. They are planning pushback with violence tomorrow and they are trying to get ahead of it to make it justified.

A quick search of his biography on Wikipedia shows nothing outside of government work. Maybe his wife paid for it.

The no kings rally is woke crap. It shows the hypocrisy of the left - if Trump actually was a king (or authoritarian), he’d crack down on it and not allow any protests

Patience grasshopper! These things take time. It took Victor Orban 18 years to set up his autocratic regime.

Are you stating today that in the future “King” Trump will absolutely not do anything to infringe on public demonstrations against his policies?

He’s not King but we should definitely give him another 4. all the interference is just an attempt to run out the clock so might need another round to make sure MAGA policies stick. Need some good strong roots.

In case there was any doubt as to what MAGA is trying to accomplish

lol. As the old saying goes, you started it. and you involved other people’s children in it, so you may just reap what you sow.

If I were you, I would be screaming from the heavens to your reps to reopen the US Government. This is the smart play, and then we will not need to play the Trump card. Start there, get onboard, or just get out of the way, and Trump will be out. Just like that. The power of MAGA is in The People.

I gave you a thumbs up strictly for your user name. Enjoy it.

People *voted* for those policies. Don't forget that. It's very important.

For those of you that think it is crazy talk that Trump would use violence or force against a No Kings rally, you need to recall that Esper testified that Trump on several occasions wanted to shoot protesters in Trump 1.0. This was back in the days when there were adults in the room to correct these thoughts. No Adults this time.

multiple WH personnel and the speaker of the house are saying those at No Kings marchers are terrorists, hate america, etc. Smoothing the path for the mass shootings and arrests.

Historians will condemn the Republican Party for its abandonment of prosperous, peaceful liberal democracy.

And historians will be amazed that this country had it all - we were kings of the world until 2024 - and burned it all down because one charismatic fool convinced us to follow him.

Shocking stuff. End of a nation.

trump is breaking the law left and right. You can't vote to allow someone to break the law and the Constitution. Doesn't work that way in a nation of laws. You don't get to murder people and refuse due process because you won an election.

and anyway, trump is underwater in polling on every issue, including immigration. It's better said that voters thought Trump would use common sense and not be this crazy.

newsweek.com

Donald Trump's approval rating goes underwater on every issue

Trump's declining approval ratings on the economy, immigration, and foreign policy signal potential trouble for his broader agenda.

Open link

You can say what you want. You can even make the argument that we have a better understanding of his policies now than we did then. I agree. It's how policy works. It doesn't change the fact that Trump was very clear about what he was going to do, and that he was elected subsequently to sharing his vision for this country.

No one here is making the argument that Trump is above the law or can do whatever he wants (well...almost no one: his critics use the a neat counteractual on both points to call him a "king," "authortarian," etc.). He was democratically elected.

He can be democratically removed. His policies can be challenged in a court of law, which they have been and which they absolutely should be. Most important, it's part of our national fabric to hate the President past the point of hyperbole. It doesn't make those claims true, however. And that matters.

Stephen Miller's $3.7-something-million house. LRC apparently didn't like "p*nka**" or something in the original post, and I didn't want to get banned for something I didn't write....so I didn't quote the post.

Yes. and the fact the liberals falsified intel to fabricate a story that good men and woman in this country supported a Russian Agent…and to this day are running interference to those voters serves as reason enough to give Trump another 4 years.

Im not entirely sure what Steve Bannon is up to but it would be prudent for everyone to pay attention, if this is of interest to them.

Maybe Jared/Ivanka(i.e., oil Sheikhs) threw him a loan/gift.

On second thought, my post above seems to imply that Miller himself couldn't get Gulf states (and others) to give him bags/planefuls of cash because he has the ear of the dumb orange one. I imagine he easily could.

This seems too optimistic. And maybe way too optimistic. I went in June, and will go again tomorrow. And hope that the nationwide numbers are enormous. But it certainly doesn't mean that I'm anywhere near close to believing that it will have any substantive impact. I can only hope. Quick thoughts:

- I'd be pretty surprised if Trump is actually worried about them. He'll disparage it, like most everything, but that doesn't mean that he's scared.

- Are GOP politicians? Maybe a few, a little? But I'm not sure why they would be, at least not much. What didn't Trump do and get away with - and the GOP allow and not say a word about - because of the June event? Zilch? Why would October be different?

- It seems perfectly clear that the GOP won't buck Trump in any meaningful way under current circumstances. What could change to change that, prior to Nov '26? Popular opinion/polls? Maybe? And will huge turnout tomorrow change the polls? Probably not? If not, nothing probably changes.

But I'll be there, and I will hope in the days and weeks and months that follow that I'm completely wrong, above.