Trump Tells Supporters ‘Don’t Worry About Voting’ On Election Night
The odd comment was quickly picked up by the Never Back Down PAC which backs Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) 2024 presidential bid
Other clips from the rally went viral as well, including Trump saying, “I’m for us. You know how you spell us, right? U.S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before?”
I hate this timeline so much.
Reading this made me wanna cry. It's so fucking sad that millions of people actually voted for this man. Wow, just wow.
What's even sadder is that it's millions of people that some of us used to look up to and respect, now we just have a bunch of sad brainwashed shells of the people they used to be before Trump/conservative propaganda got ahold of them. They broke our communities and now they've broken our families, now all that's left is for them to break is us.
I'm not the biggest Hillary fan but she's been right about the Trump Qult from day 1 and this is a great essay from her about this topic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/hillary-clinton-essay-loneliness-epidemic/674921/
My neighbors have started putting out trump 2024 flags. I have no idea how anyone can look positive at that man...
Jesus. This sounds like literally every parody version of George W Bush, trying to get a laugh out of how massively exaggerated they made his stupidity.
USA: We couldn't possibly elect a president dumber than GWB
GOP: Hold my beer...
Just because Donald Trump is a moron doesn't mean George W Bush wasn't incredibly stupid. Both things can be true.
Let's not forget that Bush only graduated from college because his parents donated money to keep him from being given failing grades and flunking out.
There are entire buildings on the Yale campus that only exist because W was such a poor student.
From the guy who you could insert him saying me/Trump whenever he said United States, this country etc. Of course he doesn't think about the word us, that's means including people who aren't him.
lol okay that’s a fair point.
For the past 30 years I'm still not sure if it's US Weekly or U.S. Weekly. So yea, I guess I've thought of that before.
It's a little 's'. I too have made that mistake...
/im14andthisisderp
What could be a more fascist thing to say?
If somebody else gave incorrect voting instructions, that would be election interference.
They don't usually do it in a way that would tank their own election though.
TBH, I'm totally ok with the trumpies not voting
Yeah, I think there's a difference between tricking people into making invalid votes and straight-up asking them not to vote.
“I’m for us. You know how you spell us, right? U.S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before?”
No Don, no one has thought of that. Just like no one has ever remembered “person man woman camera TV” before.
sigh everything is terrible lol
Awww, Donnie just learned how to spell a two letter word! What a smart boy he is!
Well, that's because Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.
Sometimes you have a thought or idea that you think is 100% unique and original and then you do five seconds of Googling to discover that not only have a lot of other people thought of it before, but they thought of it long before you ever did and may already be a thing you never knew about. You have a Today I Learned moment and life goes on.
...and then there's whatever the fuck this idea is that should have never even left his mouth to begin with. It's one thing to drop this granule of insight down on the bar while you're sharing a beer with your pals after you've had one too many already. It's another to hear it come from someone that once led the country and some people think is smart. Holy Jesus.
1969 - Hogan's Heroes. Col. Klink is shown a insignia button found in the woods. "it says 'us'" he says (to canned laughter)
So only 54 years ago confirmed evidence that it had been thought of before
Two letters. Two. Dude thinks he invited the idea. What an absolute skid mark.
Sounds like another coup attempt being foreshadowed by Trump
Yeah, though I wouldn't be surprised if he legit didn't really want to be president in the first place, but the opportunity to fleece more people was too great for him to pass up so he just ran with it and can't stop now.
I don't think Trump realizes we're all aware of what he's capable of.
I'm not going to worry about voting on election night. Because I will have voted days/weeks earlier through my state's effective vote by mail system.
That's why they hate it so much.
Unfortunately I'm in a red blood state with some really corrupt officials. I can't trust that my mail in ballot won't be "lost"
Fill out your mail-in ballot, then just drop it in the secured ballot box at your polling location. Then DeJoy doesn't get to fuck with your vote.
Didn't South Park already kind of pick up on the fact that Trump gives off the vibe that he doesn't REALLY want to be President, he just wants the perks of campaigning?
Mr. Garrison in like a whole 8 months of clips basically plots and plans on how he can get OUT of it, only to keep finding himself in situations where he somehow gets further in the polls.
This feels exactly like that.
He just wants his name in lights. It's a personality disorder.
He doesn't want to do anything. He never has had to.
It's not talked about how just so seriously mentally ill trump is. The Goldwater rule is probably for the best, but trump is, well, just look into the DSM. Way worse than Goldwater.The wiki captures it as well.
I went to a lecture of a criminal psychologist recently about psychopathy. Psychopaths are often also narcissists, and there are a number of personality traits to identify them. The more traits one has, the more likely the person is a clinical narcissist. Trump would check all those boxes, every single one.
I’d never heard of the Goldwater rule but wow it makes sense that that rule is named after that asshole
Thing is, this time around he’s either in the White House or in federal prison. Stupid as he is, I think he still understands that much.
Yeah, it's actually scarier that this time he really wants it. And that when the 4 years is up, he has to stay in power in order to stay out of prison.
You mean how he looked completely miserable election night with everyone else around him celebrating?
I'm amazed more isn't made of this.
Then I think he realized how little he could actually do.
::Puts season 26 episode 6 on the watch list::
I’m p. sure everyone picked up on that vibe, don’t even need to watch South Park to have figured it out.
I never knew that such a large portion of our population was so far below what I would have thought was the average intelligence until I heard they thought this man was smart. This guy is an idiot and that scares me to think what that means about his cult members’ intelligence levels.
No one dumb enough to think this guy is smart should be trusted with any adult responsibilities; not gun ownership, not voting and definitely not reproducing.
Fun fact: half the population has below average intelligence.
The issue is how far below average most of his supports appear to be.
This is apparent to me every day at work. The public washroom has an indicator beside it that will light up green with the words "OCCUPIED WHEN LIT" any time the door is locked from within. This is a very obvious indicator, though to the average person, green mean go. And every single time I'm using it, you bet your ass some fucking Neanderthal approaches that door, immediately becomes confused over the meaning of occupied, and decides it must be synonymous with vacant. They then grab ahold of the handle and not once, not twice, but often attempt to rip that fucking door down three times before their meat brain tells them "DOOR LOCKED!". You can literally feel the desperation and confusion in every one of those attempted breaches.
Every. Fucking. Time.
And I don't shit at work, so I'm not often in there more than a couple of minutes. I think I'm going to start bellowing "GREEEN MEEANN GGOOOOOOOO!" from inside every time this happens.
One of customers told me how much he likes Trump thinks he his smart. This was after him and his son were talking about how dumb Biden is.
I have lost respect for customer and wouldn't want him our his company working on my floor.
In fairness, I don't think Biden is some genius, either. Perception of his intelligence isn't helped by the fact that he apparently can't stop plagiarizing other people's speeches.
This gem also from the article should have made even the really stupid people in the audience walk out.
I'm for us. You know how you spell us, right? U.S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before?
Right? That one hurt my head so much reading it that I couldn’t make myself watch the video out of fear my own brain cells would commit suicide.
By definition almost half of the population has an IQ of below 100. And IQ is obviously a flawed metric by itself, you can have a high IQ and still struggle with getting through a day without saying something stupid.
Me after reading the headline: "Haha, that's hilarious! Yes, Trump voters, don't worry about voting!"
Me after reading the article: "Well, that was disturbing."
You don’t have to vote, don’t worry about voting. The voting, we got plenty of votes.
Why does it sound like he's got a mountain of fake ballots sitting in a warehouse that he's gonna drop from a blimp or some shit.
I'm wondering if he doesn't really want to be President
He needs to win. The crimes he's committed are obviously crimes, well documented, and he has gone right up to the line on publicly admitting this. The only way he stays out of jail is if he wins and pardons himself. Or if the hamberders block his heart in the next year.
Covfefe logic. Simple as that.
Because he has an IQ below room temperature and I'm talking Celsius.
"Watch the voters"
We already have poll watchers, is he really trying to go full 1933 nazi and have his zealots "monitor" voters?
Great.
Watch them for what exactly? For... Voting for another candidate? I don't understand. Like. They are looking for fraud? What would that look like?
I don't get it. Like if I went and watched the people at my local voting center, I would see a bunch of senior citizen voulenteers handing out ballots, and then I would see people putting their ballots into the big scantron machine thing. That's what it would look like. That's what it looks like every time.
He has said this shit each election how are people surprised still?
Yes.
He is consistantly pulling from Hitler's playbook. Why is this surprising?
Here's something few of the libs think about; Many of us are armed as well.
Lol, not nearly enough compared to American conservatives. 30% to 69%. You are outnumbered over 2-1.
I am not an American, I just look at statistics for everything.
It's so he can start bitching more and more after he loses again and his cult can try to overthrow the government again.
He wants to break the system, dumbasses.
He is prove the system is already broken. When in a democracy, voters who can read and write, who are impoverished and on avg can't even afford a $500 emergency vote for a billionaire, I'd say that is a failure of the system.
He's leading the polls?
"The polls"
If I go outside and ask the three young kids riding their bikes what their favorite ice cream is, I've joust conducted a poll.
Apropos to this specific scenario, if I go to a chocolate lovers convention and ask their favorite ice cream flavor, guess which flavor might leaf the way. Now what is while along the question, I was wearing a t-shirt that says "vote for chocolate and I'll give you $20 bucks".
"Chocolate is leading in the polls, okay... You know it, I know it."
Asking your supporters to engage in voter intimidation for the next election when you've been charged, and will be tried shortly, for leading an insurrection after the last election seems like a great game plan. /s
I can't imagine being this guys lawyer. You must either be eating a handful of Tums every night, or your just as loony as him and actually don't see how everything he says and does it toxic to himself and everyone in his orbit.
His lawyers are just there to drag it out, they plan on using mob violence to settle things when time runs out if he hasn't been elected.
There are two things his lawyers are going to bank on: that toxic and illegal are very different things and that their real goal is to drag things out in hopes of a second term for Trump.
Maybe the ones that aren't co-defendants with him ... yet. Although helping him win a 2nd term gets them what? If he gets his 2nd term, and the GOP gladly allow him to assume his dream of being dictator:
"Dont worry about voting, just intimidate and threaten the other people who are voting."
Other clips from the rally went viral as well, including Trump saying, “I’m for us. You know how you spell us, right? U.S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before?”
No, Donnie. No one has ever thought of this. You're the first, you beautiful genius. /s
Trump has killed satire.
The Onion and the like have nowhere left to go...
"Very stable genius."
Sounds like he's instructing his people to harass and intimidate voters. Add it to the pile of crimes?
This actually concerns me a bit. Not that I believe Trump can actually coordinate anything, mind you.
But at the same time, Trump really didn't lose the election by several million votes. He lost the election by a few thousand key votes in key swing states. Many of those states have passed dranconian laws, took over election boards, and put in rules that would allow them to just throw the election Trump's way regardless of the actual vote count. It's very possible that he's simply banking on those to carry him through the day regardless of the actual vote totals. If Trump believes (or is led to believe) the fix is in in those key areas, telling ruby-red voters in ruby-red states to stay home is no big deal.
I'm very concerned.
Diminishing faith in elections is one of the fourteen characteristics of Fascism.
Related Beau of the Fifth Column:
While I agree with the sentiment, Trump did lose by millions of votes. There was a 7.61 million vote differential. He also lost the popular vote to Hillary by 2.9 million votes.
Biden won 81,283,098 votes, or 51.3 percent of the votes cast. He is the first U.S. presidential candidate to have won more than 80 million votes. Trump won 74,222,958 votes, or 46.8 percent of the votes cast. More Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than any other losing presidential candidate in US history.
Going back further, incumbency aside, there hasn't been a Republican who has won the popular vote since GHW Bush in 1988..35 years ago
While I agree with the sentiment, Trump did lose by millions of votes. There was a 7.61 million vote differential. He also lost the popular vote to Hillary by 2.9 million votes.
Yeah, I know all of that. But about 5 million of that 7.61 million, for example, came from California. There was never a chance that California was going to Trump, so those 5 million extra votes were largely overkill votes that had no bearing on the overall election outcome. Those 5 million could have stayed home and it wouldn't have changed the outcome a single bit. The same goes, to a much lesser degree, with states like New York and Massachusetts, which are about as blue as you can get.
The same holds true for Trump, by the way. Trump won several southern states by double digits, leading to himself getting millions of overkill votes in states that were never in danger for him. A few million people in those states could have stayed home and the outcome wouldn't have changed a bit. But a few thousand more votes in a couple of key states could mean we'd be sitting in the midst of Trump's 2nd term while Biden goes down as a footnote who ran his campaign from his basement.
It's all about the crucial votes in key areas of swing states. Georgia is a prime example. A swing of just over 11,000 votes out of a pool of 5 million could have thrown the state to Trump. A 20,000 vote swing in Wisconsin could have turned Wisconsin red. Between the two of them alone, 31,000 votes could have sent two states and their 26 Electoral College votes to the GOP. The same could be said about half a dozen other states where Biden's wins were razor thin.
The popular vote is great for bragging rights, but in reality has no actual bearing on the outcome of the election due to the existence of the Electoral College. It's great for chest thumping, but winning by 7.6 million votes when 7 million of those votes came from heavily populated states that Biden was going to easily win anyway doesn't really say much. When you're talking about votes that actually have an impact on the results, Biden's victory was much, much narrower.
Look at it this way: Do you really think Biden is going to waste his time running up the score in California, or is he going to spend his time in swing states to try to at least maintain if not expand upon the narrow wins he got last time? He's going to spend his time in the swing states because running up the score in California by a few million votes will do exactly nothing for him, while ensuring he at least maintains the 11,000 votes he won by in Georgia will mean he doesn't lose 16 EC votes right off the top.
That would involve planning on his part and he has not demonstrated ability. He responds not plans.
I agree, it would be a complete waste of time for they to vote
I am conflicted between everyone should participate in democracy and them participating in democracy
tRump voters do not believe in democracy though. So I'm good with their uneducated hateful vote not being cast.
Ya know... This is actually super wild for him to say. lol
Right but it's consistent. He's going to keep pushing the election lie until he rallies another coup.
Because he’s is funny, I’d vote trump.
Biden can barely read from teleprompter.
My dude, have you heard Trump speak lately? The thinks he ran against Obama in 2016, that Obama is Joe Biden's boss, that Jeb Bush got us into Iraq, and that World War 2 hasn't happened yet. My point is, if you're going to try and use the "Biden is senile" talking point, every single criticism also applies to Trump. Trump is only 4 years younger than Biden, which would make him exactly as old as Biden was when he started his first term. Not exactly the picture of youth or virility.
Look - election system is really lame in US, you gotta vote for 2 oligarchic parties that dont care about you and force candidates down our throats. The choices given are just unhealthy - but us system is what created these choice.
A wise man once told me "Never let perfect be the enemy of good.". I understand the apathy of never feeling like you are represented by the leaders you vote for, but the perfect candidate will probably never come around in your lifetime and you will always have to settle for what you've been dealt. If you sit down and evaluate the candidates rationally, the choice is obvious. There's an absolute mountain of achievements Biden has raked in during his first term. Trump, not so much. Plus the whole attempted coup thing should make anybody think twice about giving Trump a second term, full stop.
Our best hope is that Biden dies of old age before electiins so we can have a new candidate
Who would you vote for, if you had your choice of candidates? Because I can tell you that if your answer isn't "Kamala Harris", you're going to be suuuuper disappointed if Biden does actually die in office.
Best hope is that both of them die before the elections, all the traitors in the government who supported Trump's bold-faced coup get put up against the wall, and we implement ranked-choice voting. None of that is going to happen, so the best we can hope for is putting trump's ass in a orange jumpsuit made for someone who is actually 6'9 and 215lbs before the election.
Seems like he is calling for his supporters to swarm polling stations and scare away anyone who looks like a Democrat. He is counting on violence or the threat of it to give him a win.
He's calling for a coup. And not subtly.
I think it's going to end up like how he discouraged mail in voting. The real crazies live in red areas, they are going to scare their own voters away.
I really hope you are right.
Let's game this out the way some of the comments are saying.
Scenario 1: Proud Boys and other right wing militant groups stand around polling places with open carry weapons to intimidate Democrat-leaning districts. Maybe it doesn't chase everyone away, but we know a lot of election officials are complaining about threats and have quit. So it's going to have some effect. Enough to swing the vote? I don't think that matters. It's still election interference.
Scenario 2: right wing militants show up, and so do various antifa groups to counter them. Maybe antifa show up armed, maybe not. Either way, it's an escalation. Escalating tensions with guns present significantly increases the chances that someone uses their gun, regardless of who shoots first. The first shots in a civil war? Then the right wing militants win, because they've been agitating for this for years. Who wins is immaterial to the millions of people who will suffer as a result.
Scenario 3: polling places are reinforced with police and National Guards as necessary to prevent any election interference. They can be present to "observe" but they're not allowed to intimidate anyone. This is the only scenario I can see where democracy is defended and preserved.
Agree or disagree? What am I missing? Where am I wrong?
You're missing that the police etc and the proud boys etc are the same group.
Nah, he's missing: 4. The Fat Boys only show up in red counties, having no impact whatsoever. They pass out drunk in the parking lot of the voting locations and their wives and kids have a quiet night to themselves.
They forget to vote. They don't intimidate anyone because the few liberals who live there voted early. They later complain it was "rigged".
I don’t think that matters. It’s still election interference.
Short of cancelling the election after the polling has happened, how do you expect to counter that if Trump wins because of it?
I mean it doesn't matter because it's election interference that will happen again and again because we don't seem to have the political will to stop it. Unless we get Scenario 3.
I think he thinks he'll lose, and he thinks a big loss is actually less believable to his supporters than a close loss, so he's trying to create a big loss, which will make more of his supporters Jan 6 2.0.
I'm not following that logic. If he tells everyone not to vote, and most comply meaning only a few vote, wouldn't the majority of them who didn't vote see the low results and understand that it would be the natural outcome? Where do they think votes come from if they don't vote?
Something, something, democrats, something, something, racist dog whistle, something, something, democrats, something, something, Hunter's Biden laptop, something, something.
I imagine when they look at the lines of voters they categorize people into two bins: normal and not-normal. Trump is asking his supporters to do a Rorschach test but citizens are the ink blots and he's specifically telling them to look for scary things. Their Conclusion: If you see lots of normal people and he loses the election, then it's because of those voters that didn't look normal were there to rig the system.
Well that’s creepy.
Yeah I’m ok with that. If you’re a trump supporter, dont worry about voting!
It's the part where he wants those same people to go out and intimidate or attack anyone not voting "correctly" (read: Republican).
Nah I’m ok with that too- make sure you wear your maga hat large and proud, no mask because you’re not a pussy, and say you’re name loud and clear into the cameras to assert your alpha male dominance. Insist how DJT told you it was ok. Make some loud and specific threats against government officials. Then kick back and wait for your all expense paid federal vacation!
Setting the stage for January 6th 2.0.
No. Stop. Don't.
I'm a lib and I certainly don't want to get owned like this.
So if you actually read the article, he’s effectively encouraging his supporters to engage in active voting interference.
“So, we have to be careful. You got to get out there and watch those voters,” Trump said, adding, “You don’t have to vote, don’t worry about voting. The voting, we got plenty of votes.”
He's saying that he's going to win by force. And he probably will. It's over.
It isn’t over until it’s over. If I have to face armed gunmen to vote I will. People in other countries are brave enough to do it, I can be too.
What is over exactly?
Why do you say "he probably will" as if it was a done deal?
Are you a trump shill?
@spaceghoti hit the high points. The presumptive nominee for President of the United States for one of two major parties is openly fascist, with exactly zero consequences. He has a lot of people on his side, many of whom are already in positions of power in government, in all three branches, and in the press.
There have been plenty of opportunities for consequences to be laid upon these people who are still working to overthrow the foundations of democracy. None have been laid. None. I have zero faith in the ability of a democratic government to be able to put down this fascism.
Are you a trump shill?
You are free to browse my comment history to make your own judgment on that. Or go fuck yourself, your choice.
They're saying democracy in the US is over. The slow walk of prosecutions against the Jan. 6th insurgents, particularly its organizers, has given the fascists the confidence to do it again at a national level. We'll either have to fight back with equal violence, flee, or submit to their dictatorship.
everytime tfg gets a headline a kitten dies
Nope. Don’t vote. Show up with guns and attempt to steal it.
Such a smart man
Londonderry*
Im definitely not voting in this presidential election (Because I am Australian)
It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes.
Like they proved in court dozens of times since 2020?
You're in a cult, get educated, snap out of it
just a bunch of stupid fucking trolls, aren't you.. idiot children..
The PCM Nazis made their way to the fediverse.
Bruh, even 2016 wasn't a fucking landslide - he outright lost the popular vote, only getting in thanks to the electoral college.
RemindMe - 13 months. :)
I'm not going to say Trump has NO path to victory, he does, but it won't be a landslide. There are also a growing number of paths that would take him out of the race before the election even happens.
Edit Pretending Trump has no path is partly how he won in 2016. No vote can be taken for granted.
Imagine being such a sycophantic cuck that you are willing to publicly argue that some fuck, who wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire on the side of the road, is going to win in a landslide after already losing the popular vote twice.
Especially on a post where that same dumbshit just told the rest of your cult members not to vote, and you all hang on his every word like it's water in the fucking desert. I'd say this was a joke, but there ain't nothing funny about it.
They said that in 2020, too. It was bullshit then, and it’s bullshit now.
