Trump's last speech unpacked

POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Thursday, November 24, 2022 23:26
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CAPTAINCRUNCH

Sunday, January 10, 2021 8:03 PM

Seth Abramson at @SethAbramson

(THREAD) Media has yet to do a deep dive on precisely what Trump *said* in his January 6 speech in DC—a speech now called an "incitement to insurrection," and the basis for an article of impeachment coming Monday. This thread unpacks the speech. I hope you'll read on and RETWEET.

1/ First, many don't realize that while the name of the *rally* was "Stop the Steal," Trump spoke flanked by banners that read "Save America March"—Save America being the PAC Trump has used since the election to scam voters out of more than $300 million for "election defense."

2/ It appears, therefore, that the link between Trump, his opposition to Biden's January 6 certification in Congress, and the insurrectionist march on the Capitol is one that comes, incredibly, with a paper trail—as it appears Trump *paid for* the seditious "Save America March."

3/ Seconds into his speech, Trump says, "These people are not going to take it any longer. They're not going to take it any longer...They came from all over our country. I just really want to see what they do." It's an astonishing admission he thinks something is going to happen.

4/ Trump then seems to catch himself, repeating the phrase "I just really want to see" but now adding "how they [media] cover it [the Save America March]." It's hard to know, therefore—perhaps deliberately—whether "what they do" means "what media does" or "what the marchers do."

5/ He then falsely says "media and Big Tech" together "rigged" the November 2020 election *and* the Georgia run-off, suggesting—in the context of past Trump remarks—that a combination of pre-vote polling and post-vote vote-manipulation explains GOP losses in those two elections.

6/ "All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical Left Democrats, which is what they're doing, and stolen by the fake news media, that's what they've done and what they're doing. We will never give up." The verb tenses here are *key*.

7/ Remember, Trump excitedly tweeted about this event on December 19—the day it was moved to January 6. Trump scheduled his speech for an hour before the election certification was due to start. His words were *timed* to coincide with the "Save America March" he was paying for.

8/ So when Trump speaks in the present tense of the election being "stolen" by Democrats and the media—it's "what they're doing"—he means it literally: he's telling the "Save America March" that he and they are *imminently* facing a "stolen election" due to events at the Capitol.

9/ He then switches to the future tense: "We will never give up. We will never concede." He's directing the Save America March he paid for, which he'll shortly launch at the Capitol explicitly, to future conduct that'll encapsulate a shared commitment not to "give up or concede."

10/ "You don't concede when there's theft involved." He's telling the crowd that they *can't* do anything but march on the Capitol (as he will shortly tell them to do), and that they *must* not do anything on January 6 that would "concede" to the vote taking place at the Capitol.

11/ Trump clearly sees the crowd as an army. He crows about the size of the crowd, claiming it is "hundreds of thousands" strong. That's important for his "mens rea" (mental state) as a criminal actor: he believes he's commanding the actions of a *massive* force near the Capitol.

12/ "Our country has had enough. We *will not* take it *any more*. And that's what this [the Save America March] is all about." Trump is *unambiguously* tying his speech to the March, and the March to a dramatic action—not a metaphor or merely symbolic one—that's about to happen.

13/ "And to use a

SECOND

Sunday, January 10, 2021 8:39 PM

Trump starts at 2:33:40

THE AUDIO IS BETTER ON THIS:

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

REAVERFAN

Sunday, January 10, 2021 8:40 PM

US Capitol riot mob wanted to kill Mike Pence, run Pelosi over with a car
Disturbing new details reveal the violent and murderous intentions of some US Capitol rioters — including abducting and killing Mike Pence.
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/us-capitol-rio
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Disturbing new details have emerged about the apparent murderous intentions of some of the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the US Capitol this week, including killing senior politicians Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi.

Authorities have revealed that a vehicle found near the scene shortly after the siege contained a large number of firearms and explosives.

It comes as a Reuters photographer recounted what rioters were discussing as they tore through the Capitol on January 6 – including hanging the Vice President from a tree for being a “traitor”.

Despite being a Republican, Mr Pence is now loathed by a number of Trump supporters after endorsing Joe Biden’s electoral college victory.

In newly released footage, rioters can be heard chanting, “Where’s Mike Pence?” as they rush through the building, while others demand “heads on pikes”.

According to CNN, a terrified Mr Pence and his family — his wife Karen Pence, daughter Charlotte and brother, Representative Greg Pence — could hear the chants as they were evacuated from the building, fearing for their lives.

The Vice President wasn’t the only target of some rioters.

An armed rioter was arrested and texts were found on his phone of his alleged plans to execute House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, by shooting her or running her over with his car.

“I heard at least three different rioters at the Capitol say that they hoped to find Vice President Mike Pence and execute him by hanging him from a Capitol Hill tree as a traitor,” tweeted Jim Bourg, a Reuters News Pictures editor in Washington DC.

“It was a common line being repeated. Many more were just talking about how the VP should be executed,” he added.

Another journalist, The Independent’s Washington correspondent Andrew Feinberg, said that the threat went further than just Mike Pence.

“There are multiple photographs of pro-Trump rioters carrying law enforcement-style flex-cuffs,” Mr Feinberg tweeted.

“Rioters went looking for @VP (Mike Pence), @SpeakerPelosi (Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives) and @SenSchumer (Senator Chuck Schumer, New York’s Senator and the Senate Democratic Leader).

“It raises the question of whether there was an organised plan to take hostages,” he added.
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Dear Leader speaks, the cult acts. The cult kills for Dear Leader.

This is Manson-level brainwashing.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, January 10, 2021 11:04 PM

lol

The first draft of anything is shit. :)

CAPTAINCRUNCH

Monday, January 11, 2021 5:54 AM

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/us/politics/capitol-zip-ties-arrest
.html

The F.B.I. arrest two men who had carried plastic restraints into the Capitol.

“The F.B.I. arrested two men on Sunday who were photographed in the Senate chamber clad in military-style clothing and holding zip ties, according to a statement issued by the Justice Department.

One of the men, Eric Gavelek Munchel, 30, was taken into custody in Nashville on one count of unlawfully entering a restricted building and one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, the department said. One of the officials involved in the case said authorities also recovered several weapons at the time of his arrest.“

Gee, I wonder what those plastic restraints were for?

THG

Monday, January 11, 2021 6:39 AM

Many more arrests to come. More and more republicans will answer for the parts they played in fueling the insurrection. I was checking out the post you opened the thread with G. It gave me brain freeze.

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, January 11, 2021 7:56 AM

lol

Morons.

Get a life, Ted.

The first draft of anything is shit. :)

CAPTAINCRUNCH

Monday, January 11, 2021 8:38 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Many more arrests to come. More and more republicans will answer for the parts they played in fueling the insurrection. I was checking out the post you opened the thread with G. It gave me brain freeze.

Abramson does run on a bit! Sometimes he assumes too much imho, but he does hit on a lot of things that ring true. Essentially, give big props to Trump for being a very effective (evil) speaker - totally true. Might even be his super power. Being in Real Estate in NYC will do that to you. The speech was a master class in empowering a mob and pointing them at a target and giving them carte blanche for mayhem and destruction once they got there. There's no question it's a perfect example of inciting to riot. And bonus, if Maga fcks decide to cite that speech as their defense ("I believed the president of the Untied States wanted me to blank"), which some are doing, then that can be used during Trump's impeachment trial as evidence.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, January 11, 2021 9:43 PM

Yup.

Trump is so evil that Twitter and Google deleted his video imploring people to stop doing what they were doing. Imagine how dangerous it would have been to keep that video up.

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THG

Monday, January 11, 2021 11:21 PM

This is the speech that applies to todays current events.

T

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, November 24, 2022 11:26 PM

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Donald Trump

Why would anybody be surprised that the Supreme Court has ruled against me, they always do! It is unprecedented to be handing over Tax Returns, & it creates terrible precedent for future Presidents. Has Joe Biden paid taxes on all of the money he made illegally from Hunter & beyond. The Supreme Court has lost its honor, prestige, and standing, & has become nothing more than a political body, with our Country paying the price. They refused to even look at the Election Hoax of 2020. Shame on them!

45th President of the United States