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An example of what exactly? That his speech contained a bunch of euphemisms and some of them may have been taken as calls to violence? Do you expect me to provi
by invisible 5y ago
An example of what exactly? That his speech contained a bunch of euphemisms and some of them may have been taken as calls to violence? Do you expect me to provide a clear example of him telling folks go harm congress members? We can all agree he didn't say any direct quotes like that. I did link to a full article that contained highlights for things that I'd consider euphemisms.
Here are a few (not even all of them):
- "... these people are not going to take it any longer, they’re not going to take it any longer."
- "... to see our election victory stolen by bold and radical left Democrats. ... We will never concede. It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved. ... We will not take it anymore, and that is what this is all about. .. We’re just not going to let that happen."
- "We want to be so respectful of everybody, including bad people. And we’re going to have to fight much harder."
- "... Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness."
- "Well, I would say yes, it does, because the Constitution says you have to protect our country, and you have to protect our Constitution, and you can’t vote on fraud, and fraud breaks up everything, doesn’t it? When you catch somebody in a fraud, you are allowed to go by very different rules."
- "Looking out at all of the amazing patriots here today, I have never been more confident in our nation’s future."
- "But I said something is wrong here, something is really wrong, can’t have happened, and we fight. We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore."
The crowd was literally chanting "fight for Trump" during the speech before they went and...surprise... fought for Trump.
Then after, he tweeted a video and some text:
- "... Stay peaceful!"
- "No violence!"
- "We had an election that was stolen from us. ... We have to have peace. ... I know how you feel."
- "These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!"
So yeah, he called for peace after rallying the crowd to fight for him. At the same time, he was saying that it was justified and that he feels the same way as the folks rioting.
- nec4b 5y agoNone of those citations was a call for violence. What you call an euphemism looks a lot more like a conspiracy theory. Sounds very unbelievable, that Trump could made his whole speech in cyphers and only his followers understood its meaning, until...
- invisible 5y agoI see your perspective but I disagree with the conclusions. Let me put it one other way: if he didn’t organize people and then make that speech, do you think there would have been a riot at all?
- nec4b 5y agoThere were probably 1000s of protests/riots last year in the USA alone. I don't think all the others were spontaneous and this one was orchestrated by a mastermind using cryptic language to wake up his sleeping warriors.